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 Branch in February 2014, claiming that a letter he wrote the previous month, seeking a meeting with the chairman to discuss outstanding concerns, contained language that management deemed threatening.
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The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Thursday dismissed the appeal in the Barbadian case of Sandy Lane Hotel Co Ltd v Juliana Cato, Wayne Johnson and Charmaine Poyer.
The Port of Spain-based court held that the hotel wrongfully terminated
The prestigious Sandy Lane Hotel has lost a court battle for the third time in relation to the wrongful dismissal of three former employees. The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday held that the three employees, Juliana Cato, Wayne Johnson and Charmaine Poyer, were wrongfully dismissed by the St James hotel and entitled to the damages that they claimed. The court also granted the former employees their legal costs. The …