CCJ victory for former hotel employees

A victory at the Caribbean Court of Justice for three former Sandy Lane employees after the CCJ agreed they were wrongfully dismissed.

In a judgment released Thursday, the CCJ dismissed the appeal in the Barbadian case of Sandy Lane Hotel verses Juliana Cato, Wayne Johnson and Charmaine Poyer.

The Court says the three are entitled to the damages that they claimed.

The employees were also given their legal costs.

In its statement, it says Sandy Lane Hotel had employed the three for periods between six and eleven years, when they were each dismissed in January 2012 with one week’s payment in lieu of notice.

The reason for each dismissal was alleged to be poor performance in relation to their treatment of a particular hotel guest.

The employees brought wrongful dismissal actions claiming damages under the Severance Payments Act.

The company’s defence was that the employees had been lawfully dismissed.

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