Background

An employee filed a claim with the First Instance Authority for Settlement of Labour Disputes (FIASLD) in Mecca against a company requesting they reinstate her and pay her salary starting from the date on which she was suspended to the date of her return to work. The employee has also requested that the company considers her service as uninterrupted.

The FIASLD issued a ruling requesting the company to reinstate the employee, pay her salary, and consider her service as uninterrupted.

The company filed an appeal before the SLHASLD, which examined the case and said that the company's representative did not know the reasons for ending the employee's service and had admitted that the company had not conducted any investigation with the employee.

Decision

As the company had failed to provide a valid reason for ending the service of the employee the SLHASLD agreed with the FIASLD ruling.

The SLHASLD issued a ruling upholding the appealed ruling.