KCC 182/2010

This case involved a claim for severance pay by an employee. The employee was able to argue a settlement document was incorrect as the company representative had endorsed before the labour department that he deserved severance pay.

Background

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

The court rejected the case.

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 insufficient evidence of causation because he had maintained before the court that the settlement document upon which the court had established its ruling was incorrect and the representative of the company had endorsed that he deserved severance pay.

The court stated this argument was valid because the case documents revealed that the representative of the company had endorsed before the Labour Department that the employee deserved severance pay.

The court repealed the ruling.