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State ordered to pay MVR 1.9 million for 3 individuals for 9 year suspension

Lamya Abdulla
04 June 2022, MVT 16:03
Center for people with Special Needs in Kaafu Guraidhoo, on March 2, 2022: three people were suspended from their jobs on sexual assault accusations in 2013 -- Photo: Fayaz Moosa / Mihaaru
Lamya Abdulla
04 June 2022, MVT 16:03

The Employment Tribunal has ordered the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to pay MVR 1.9 million to three individuals who have been suspended from their jobs for nine years.

The three suspended workers had worked for the Center for People with Special Needs in Kaafu Guraidhoo. However, they were suspended in 2013 for allegedly sexually abusing several minors that were kept under state custody there. Even though the state could not prove it in court .

Their employment was officially terminated in May 2021, after keeping them suspended for nine years.

When they had filed in the Employment Tribunal to regain the lost jobs as well financial compensation for lost salaries and benefits, the Tribunal ruled that even though there is no reason for them to receive their previous jobs, they did require their salaries to be repaid.

All of them are to receive MVR 25,000 in Ramadan bonus, and two of them are to receive MVR 20,000 as fair change. They also are to receive MVR 500,000 and MVR 499,999 in accumulated salaries as well.

Another one is to receive over MVR 800,000 in accumulated salaries. In addition to their Ramadan bonus, they will receive MVR 32,000 as fair change.

The three of them were given a compensation because the state had not established the procedural impartiality while dismissing them. The fourth person accused in the case was not been suspended. But they was also fired last year.

The tribunal ordered MVR 17,000 for not establishing judicial fairness in their dismissal.

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