Four senior employees axed from the Barbados Agricultural Management Company Limited (BAMC) during the BERT restructuring programme are to be paid for being unfairly dismissed.
Edwin O’neal, Winston Bailey, Coral Bramble and Philmore Gilkes took the entity before the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) and chairman Christopher Blackman and members Edward Bushell and Frederick Forde ruled they were terminated 27 days after notification, in breach of the six weeks required by the Employment Rights Act.
O’neal was a farm supervisor on May 5, 2009, in January 2016 became a non-sugar crops unit manager and was a Sugar Industries Staff Association (SISA) president. His final payment after severance was $21 798.
Bailey was a farm supervisor on March 1, 2000, appointed a farm manager in August 2016 and was a member of SISA. His award after severance was $57 212. (AC)
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