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Home / Top Featured Article / In landmark case, civil servants shielded from automatic firing for legal infractions In landmark case, civil servants shielded from automatic firing for legal infractions
Article by May 5, 2021
The Supreme Court has declared unlawful, the automatic dismissal of public workers on the basis of criminal convictions as it ruled on Monday in two separate decisions with wide-ranging implications for employment relations in Government.
On Monday, Madame Justice Shona Griffith delivered landmark judgments in cases brought by Wilbert Lynch v the Chief Personnel Officer, the Public Service Commission and the Attorney General and Kenrick Carmichael v. the Attorney General et al, which now place tremendous scrutiny on the way disciplinary proceedings are conducted.