Tribunal orders CSC to reinstate job of DPRS Superintendent Husham
31 Mar 2011, 4:43 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The Employment Tribunal has today ordered the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to reinstate Mohamed Husham to his job at the Department of Penitentiary and Rehabilitation Service (DPRS) after the tribunal determined that he was terminated from his post without grounds as specified in the Employment Act.
Husham was a Superintendent at the DPRS and the head of Maafushi Prison.
According to the tribunal he was terminated on September 7 last year. Haveeru reported that during the hearings Husham claimed that he was terminated for refusing to obey “unlawful” orders. He claimed that he was transferred from Maafushi Jail to an office in Male’ where he was not even provided with a chair for one and a half years.
The CSC was ordered to consider Husham as an employee of the CSC and to pay his full salary and allowances from September 7 until his reinstatement. The order also obliges the CSC to pay Husham within 15 days and to then inform the tribunal.
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