A COURT has dismissed a firm’s BD10,000 compensation claim against one of its former employees due to a technicality.
The insurance company filed the case at the High Administrative Court against the 31-year-old Indian who it claimed had worked as a salesman.
He left the company last November to take up employment with a rival insurance concern. His former employers claimed that he had allegedly lured customers he had dealt with to the competition.
However, lawyer Bushra Mayoof, representing the employee, presented evidence that her client was officially documented as an accountant and not as a salesman.
Judges then kicked out the case due to lack of evidence.
“The lawyer presented to us official documents that the man had worked as an accountant,” read the court ruling. “His former insurance company claimed that he worked as a salesman and helped lure away customers to a competing firm, where he later worked.
“They also said that they would bring witnesses to prove that he worked as a salesman. However, the evidence presented by the man’s lawyer was sufficient to prove he was officially documented as an accountant. Therefore, the court has dismissed the compensation claim against him.”
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