Heba Mohsen
The Great Court has ruled the workers to compel a commercial company to pay the amount of 17 thousand dinars to workers who were separated from work illegally.
The facts of the lawsuit, according to the lawyer Hussein Salem, “the prosecutor’s agent”, is summarized that his clients are between them and the defendant company with a work relationship with various jobs, and in February of the past year the company informed the defendants that it would end the work contracts due to financial conditions that afflicted the company, and since the defendant’s company did not commit to paying the labor dues to the plaintiffs, which led them to apply to the judiciary.
Whereas, the lawsuit was circulated before the Great Civil Court, and it has been proven to the court through the identification papers that the defendant company did not pay the workers ’dues to the authorized workers until the last working day with the company.
The prosecutor’s agent stated that the defendant company was paid that the prosecutors established a competing company after the expiry of their work period and during the validity of the lawsuit, which is attached to the reasons that led to its exposure to financial losses, and since the court did not prove the agreement of the two parties to the persistence of the lack of competition in a clear and explicit manner, in addition to that this does not obtain from the prosecutor’s entitlement to their labor entitlements established in accordance with the law.
Accordingly, the Civil Grand Court ruled that the defendant obligate the defendant to pay the amount of 17 thousand Bahraini dinars to the dismissed workers, in order to compensate for the completion of work contracts and obligate the company to expenses, the lawsuit fees and law fees.
