Workers are demanding a severance package before the planned privatization of the Electricity Company of Ghana. The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) “is disappointed and surprised by the lack of engagement that has been demonstrated by the present government with respect to key labour issues on the Private Sector Participation under the Compact 2 which is a sharp contrast to promises made to them by the President during the 2016 campaign. According to him, the labour laws define clearly that whenever there is going to be an arrangement or amalgamation causes ‘severance of the legal relationship of worker and employee as it existed immediately before the close down, arrangement or amalgamation,’ the worker is entitled to be paid by the employer, referred to as ‘redundancy pay.’”