Veteran port workers challenge abrupt dismissal

The Maldives Ports Limited told the press that they were let go after some departments were merged as part of a restructuring effort.

But Ibrahim Rasheed, former head of the MPL’s operations division, told the newspaper that new department heads have been appointed recently. “And functions haven’t been reduced along with it either. So what the company is saying doesn’t make sense,” he was quoted as saying.

Rasheed, who worked at the ports company for more than 10 years and holds a masters degree in business administration, said he would prove to the Employment Tribunal that the dismissal was unfair.