A raft of decisions made by Bermuda’s employment tribunal have finally been made public — more than a year after a change in the law required their disclosure.
But the parties involved in the disputes have been anonymised, meaning employers found to have mistreated staff have had their identities protected.
Employment lawyer Juliana Snelling told The Royal Gazette she welcomed the publication of the decisions as a “very positive step forward for justice on the employment law front” — even though it was “a year behind schedule”.
But she questioned why the parties were not named and said a client of hers, who won a judgment for unfair dismissal against her employer in June this year, had not agreed that the public decision could be anonymous.
“It follows that our public judgment cannot be anonymous in terms of the parties’ names and we have informed the tribunal of that in advance,” Ms Snelling said.
She said Catherine Araujo, who was awarded compensation of $53,015 from the dental clinic where she worked for more than six years, was still waiting for her decision to be published, though it should have been already.
The Employment Act 2000 was amended last year, making it a statutory requirement for the labour and economy minister to publish awards made by the Employment and Labour Relations Tribunal within 90 days of the conclusion of a hearing.
The amendment came into effect on June 1, 2021, but decisions have only very recently been published on the Government’s website....
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