<p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>JOSEPH SHAGBAOR IKYEGH, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment):</strong> The appeal is from the judgment of the National Industrial Court (the Court below) whereby it held that the appellants constructively dismissed the 1st – 4th respondents from their employment as a result of which the 1st – 4th respondents are entitled to be paid 6 months’ salary each as damages/compensation; that the appellants’ 2008 staff handbook regulated the employment relationship between the appellants and the 1st – 4th respondents as a consequence of which the appellants must adhere strictly to the provisions thereof on redundancy payment upon the forced exit of the 1st – 4th respondents from 08.02.13; that the appellants must pay due gratuity to the 1st – 4th respondents in line with the 2008 staff handbook; and that the 5th – 6th respondents are restrained from releasing or parting with the gratuity fund kept with them until the legally constituted trust committee directs as appropriate.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">​Sketchily stated, the 1…</p>