Labour Court orders bank to pay BD15,000 over ‘unfair dismissal’

The High Labour Court has ordered a local bank to compensate an Arab legal consultant with BD15,000 for illegal termination of his contract.

The court also ordered the bank to pay one percent legal interest per annum from the date of the claim until full payment. From her side, lawyer Shireen Al Ghazali, the plaintiff ’s legal representative, said that the bank had contacted her client several times in six months, asking him to join the legal team of the bank in order to benefit from his legal experience.

“My client also serves as an international arbitrator and was chosen in 2015 on Legal 500 magazine’s list of the most 100 influential legal consultants. “Due to the defendant’s insistence, my client resigned from his post in order to join the bank. “In the first six months of his tenure, the bank made many direct successes, managing to collect BD6,000,000 from settlements with debtors who stopped covering their installments.