General News of Friday, 27 April 2018Source: ghananewsagency.orgGNFS ordered to reinstate two employees sacked for getting pregnantGhana National Fire Service (GNFS) dismissed two officers for getting pregnantGNFS ordered to reinstate two employees sacked for getting pregnant An Accra High Court on Thursday ordered the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to pay an amount of GH¢100,000.00 as compensation to two former women employees who were dismissed for getting pregnant within three years of their appointment. The service is to pay GH¢50,000.00 each to the women for the trauma and inevitable inconvenience of the wrongful dismissal. In other words, women employees of the National Fire Service must defer their pregnancies until after three years of being employed. The two ex-employees of the Service, Grace Fosu and Thelma Hammond, were dismissed for violating Regulation 33 (6) of the Ghana National Fire Service Conditions of Service. They proceeded to the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice and later to the Human Rights Court, accusing the Service of discriminating against them on the basis of gender.

Source: GhanaWeb April 26, 2018 18:22 UTC