Jennifer Adighije Okolo, the inventive director of House of Silk, sued her former bosses and gained.
As said by a report, an Industrial Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos gave a ruling in favour of Jennifer towards her former employer, Helios Towers, a telecom agency.
In the court docket ruling, the Telecom agency would want to pay, Jennifer Adighije-Okolo N13.55 million for unfairly terminating her employment. Jennifer, earlier than the sack, was the corporate's Head of Operations & Planning.
The Company had terminated their former worker's appointment for what they'd termed poor efficiency (performing beneath par), Jennifer not glad with how she was sacked had taken the corporate to the Industrial Court, Ikoyi, Lagos searching for for redress.
The finish results of the case is her successful N9 Million which is the sum whole of her wage from between February 1, 2010 to January 31, 2012.
Apart from the N9 Million, the defendant would even be paying the claimant one other N4.5 Million for damages and in addition awarded within the claimant's favour is one other N50,000 prices.
As said by Jennifer, she had been graded wonderful by her speedy boss in her yearly appraisal, just for one other appraisal physique (the administration evaluation workforce) to have given an appraisal of beneath common, consequent upon which her appointment was terminated.
In his Judgement, Justice O. Abaseki-Osaghae stated: "It is the legislation that an employer will not be sure to give good reason for terminating the appointment of its worker however the place the employer provides a cause, the legislation imposes on him an obligation to determine the rationale to the satisfaction of the court docket."
"I discover that the stated administration evaluation workforce was appearing out a script when, spitefully, maliciously and with none foundation, wrote on the claimant's appraisal type 'Below expectation' and really helpful that her appointment be terminated."