The CCJ delivered judgment in this case, heard on October 23rd, where Ms. Mariette Warrington is seeking redress from Dominica Broadcasting Corporation for termination of employment, where Warrington seeks compensation in the sum of EC$ 459,900.Attorney Cara Shillingford Represented the Appellant Ms. Mariette Warrington, and Attorney Heather Felix Evans represented the respondent.The Court found that it was unlikely that parliament intended that a failure to obtain the advice of the prime minister to renew an appointment should result in its invalidity If no purpose would be served by the consequence of invalidity. The court then considered the terms of the employment starting with Duration, and compared the industrial relations Act 1971 in England would deliver contracts in Dominica, and found that the Dominica act went far beyond the scope of its English counterpart by imposing a contract on employers when they failed to comply with their statutory obligation to provide a written contract to employees and disagreed with the court of appeal that the labor contracts act did not apply, because the broadcasting act made a specific provision for the advice of the prime minister before a contract could be created. Therefore, the court concluded that by operation of law Ms. Warrington was employed following the expiration of the 2004 contract on the same terms as her former contract.The court held that by wrongfully terminating Mrs. Warrington’s employment the cooperation was liable to pay for breach of contract amounting to 52,300EC. The Justice Summary was delivered by Justice Barrow. The court stated that it would be unrealistic to suppose that after the expiration of the 2004 employment contract that there was no employment arrangement, and that Ms. Warrington carried out her job dutifully.They then shared how they arrived at the amount of 52,300 EC Justice Barrow
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