Court rejects ex-staff’s plea for interest over delayed compensation

The High Administrative Court has rejected the case filed by an expat salesman, who was demanding interest payment on outstanding salaries.

According to court details, the plaintiff was serving in the company from 2009 until 2011 as a salesman on a monthly wage of BD60, but the company refused to pay him his arrears as well as to compensate him for suffering an injury during the work hours. He filed a case with the labour court, which ruled to compensate him with BD106 as well as a return flight ticket to his hometown. He, however, filed another case after the labour court did not issue any verdict pertaining to his injury.

His compensation was increased from BD106 to BD125 as a result of this, but he again lodged another case, demanding interest payment on outstanding salaries under the pretext that the Lower Labour Court ignored it.