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Four senior employees axed from the Barbados Agricultural Management Company Limited (BAMC) during the BERT restructuring programme are to be paid for being unfairly dismissed. Edwin O’neal, Winston Bailey, Coral Bramble and Philmore Gilkes took the entity before the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) and chairman Christopher Blackman and members Edward Bushell and Frederick Forde ruled they were terminated 27 days after notification, in breach of the six weeks required by … ....
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June 12, 2021 The Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) on Friday dismissed a former employee’s 12-year-long contractual dispute with her firm because the dispute happened before the ERT’s creation. Arletta Onita Oxley complained to the Labour Department back in 2016 that BCQS International, a professional property and development consultancy had not honoured her February 9, 2009 contract of employment, the tribunal heard. When the Chief Labour Officer referred the dispute to the ERT in 2016, it was three years after the tribunal came into force. But ERT chair, retired Appeals Court Justice Christopher Blackman, said the tribunal had no jurisdiction to consider a dispute which predates the creation of the body. ....
ERT rules against dismissed senior bank employee Article by January 30, 2021 A former senior employee of a local commercial bank, who was caught at Grantley Adams International Airport with some $22,000 in United States foreign currency, has lost her claim for unfair dismissal from the financial institution. The ruling was handed down today by the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) Chairman, retired High Court Justice Christopher Blackman in the unfair dismissal case brought by ex-sales supervisor Sonya Toppin against her former employer Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited. Justice Blackman said the decision to throw out Toppin’s claim was based in part on her admission that she was about to fly to the United States with about US$20,000 in foreign currency for which she was not granted legal permission to carry, an act that constituted gross misconduct. ....
Article by Members of the Employment Rights Tribunal (from left) John Williams, chairman Christopher Blackman and Frederick Forde during yesterday’s sitting. (Pictures by Lennox Devonish.) Social Share A former manager lost a claim before the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) yesterday that he was unfairly dismissed on reaching age 65, but he did not walk away empty-handed. Norman Grant brought the action against the Barbados Beach Club for terminating his employment on October 30, 2017, ten days after he reached his 65th birthday. Grant worked for the club from 1996 to 2009 when he resigned to take up other employment. In 2010, he was re-employed in the position of duty manager with a $5 000 a month salary on an oral contract. ....