€35,000 Awarded For Unfair Dismissal And Discrimination

Recently the Court of Appeal presided by Madam Justice Edwina Grima confirmed a compensatory sum awarded by the Industrial Tribunal to a British High Commission employee for unfair dismissal and discrimination. In a nutshell, the applicant, Ms Glynis Valerie Pace was first employed as a personal assistance to the Senior Commercial officer at the British High Commission in 1999 and in May 2008 Ms Pace was informed that her employment was being terminated on the basis of redundancy.

Ms Pace declared that the reasons for termination provided for by the British High Commission were ill-founded since she was not deemed to be redundant in terms of the law. Moreover, she also held that her employer had breached her contract of employment terms.