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Retired General Secretary of the island’s largest public sector trade union Roslyn Smith has lost the unfair dismissal claim she brought against her former employer. The Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) on Wednesday ruled that Smith was not unfairly dismissed by the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), which had contended that she was retired when her contract of employment ended on
The Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) is expected to give a ruling soon in the unfair dismissal case involving former General Secretary of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) Roslyn Smith. As the case wrapped up on Tuesday, ERT Chairman retired Justice Christopher Blackman gave the assurance that the tribunal’s decision would be given “shortly”, moments after Smith’s attorney-at-law Duana Peterson
The Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) has ruled that Sandy Lane Company must pay a former employee over $40 000 in compensation. The panel of Kathyann Hamblin, Deighton Marshall and Frederick Forde awarded Alicia Cheltenham $33 276 plus medical, travel and entertainment allowances for three months, and a month’s pay of $8 240. She was dismissed from her post of compensation and benefit business partner on September 20, 2016 for inadvertently …
For the second time this year, luxury resort Sandy Lane Hotel has been ordered to pay a former employee for unfair dismissal.The latest ruling was handed down on Wednesday by the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) which ordered that former laundry supervisor Alfred Branch, who had been employed at the west coast property for 11 years, be paid just over $54 000 by December 15, 2022.Branch’s lawyer Rhea Cheltenham and attorney-at-law Michael Koeiman who represented Sandy Lane had previously agreed to a basic sum of approximately $50 000 and will not appeal the overall award.Sandy Lane terminated...
A retired Human Resources management official who was responsible for employee matters at the prestigious Sandy Lane Hotel admitted to the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) on Thursday that the company breached the legislative procedures for disciplining employees when it fired laundry supervisor Alfred Branch forthwith in February 2014.Then Assistant Director of Human Resources Winifred Williams also agreed with Branch’s attorney Rhea Cheltenham that Sandy Lane even breached its own internal disciplinary procedure with regard to an earlier matter concerning the former employee.Williams testi...