Background

An employee made a complaint against a company and requested the Labour Department to order the company to pay his dues. The department referred the case to the court.

The court ruled the company should pay the employee 1773.715 Dinars.

The employee appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.

Decision

The employee appealed the ruling before the court of cassation and stated in his grounds of appeal that the ruling had erred in the application of law because the expert had miscalculated their severance pay.

The court said that this argument was valid because Article 54 of Labour Law in the Civic Sector stipulated that the employee should receive severance pay which was equal to the total value of his salary for each year of the years which preceded the first five years of his service.

The court repealed the ruling.