WITHOUT FANFARE and apparently with its problems behind it, the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) yesterday got down to hearing its first case.
Chairman Hal Gollop and members of his panel Ed Bushell and Beverley Beckles spent three hours hearing an unfair dismissal claim filed by former business advisor at auditing/accounting company PPM Services Limited/KPMG, Joel Leacock. The hearing will resume on May 29 at 2 p.m.
An estimated 30 people, including other tribunal members and legal representatives, attended the session in Government’s Warrens Office Complex, which was seen by some tribunal members as a test run before the body takes on its biggest case – the 2014 retrenchment of nearly 200 National Conservation Commission (NCC) employees. Ty
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