BCC 98/2006
Type
Case
Court
Bahrain Court of Cassation
Jurisdiction
Bahrain
Taxonomy
Rights & Duties of Employees & Employers, Recruitment, Compensation, General Civil Procedure & Administration of Justice
Copyright
LexisNexis
Decision date
20 Nov 2006
Catchwords
Employee’s Rights – Recruitment – Compensation – Travel ticket – Evidence - Witnesses
This case involved whether an employee was due compensation and a travel ticket. Although the employee claimed he had been recruited from abroad but not provided a job, witnesses for the employer confirmed he had worked with the company for three days and resigned so no compensation was due.
Background
An employee made a complaint against a company before the Ministry of Labour requesting the company pay him compensation, 700 Dinars and the value of a travel ticket. The employee said that the company had recruited him from abroad and then failed to give him a job as agreed. The Ministry referred the case to the court.
The court cancelled the case because the employee failed to attend the hearing.
The employee filed another case before the court with the same requests.
The court dismissed the case due to the statute of limitations.
The employee appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.
Decision