DISAGREEMENT OVER the direction of the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) was primarily what led to its eventual implosion and mass resignations.
Though Minister of Labour Senator Dr Esther Byer Suckoo did not say so directly, her utterances made it clear the tribunal was moving away from the original concept envisioned and going in the direction of an industrial court. And this was not what was wanted.
This was the most significant revelation when Byer Suckoo met the media in her Warrens Office Complex suite yesterday to discuss why eight of the nine members of the ERT had tendered their resignations with immediate effect on December 5 after 18 months in office, and having not once heard any of the 77 cases before them.
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