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Article: Court orders dismissed workers to be reinstated
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- The Weekly Gleaner
- Article date:
- April 7, 2005
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THE UNITED KINGDOM Privy Council has upheld a Jamaican Court of Appeal ruling last year that three Jamaica Flour Mills Ltd. (JFM) employees, made redundant in 1999, were unjustifiably dismissed and should be reinstated.
Lord Anthony Gifford, Q.C., who represented the National Workers (NWU), which represented the workers, has described the decision as a landmark ruling. He said the Privy Council's decision, "vindicates the decision of the Court of Appeal and the interpretation of the law in our courts."
He said he expected the workers to be reinstated immediately.
The workers will have to be paid salaries from August 13, 1999, when they were made redundant, to the date of their reinstatement.