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    Home»Metro»Trinity Model Academy Ordered To Pay Teacher N2 Million For Unlawful Dismissal
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    Trinity Model Academy Ordered To Pay Teacher N2 Million For Unlawful Dismissal

    Jane OkoroBy Jane OkoroMay 15, 2023Updated:May 15, 2023No Comments3 Mins Read
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    LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The National Industrial Court has ordered a school, Trinity Model Academy, to pay its former teacher, Lucy Agabo, N2 million for psychological trauma resulting from the unlawful termination of her employment.

    The court also ordered the defendant to pay the claimant N200,000 as a cost of action within 30 days.

    Justice Isaac Essien declared the school’s action unlawful, null and void, and a violation of fundamental rights to a fair hearing.

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    The court also ordered the defendant to pay the claimant N200,000 as a cost of action within 30 days.

    Agabo, the claimant submitted that she was employed by the defendant as a classroom teacher in September 2017 and was issued a termination letter on 5 April 2019 for alleged gross misconduct.

    She asserted that she never engaged in any act of misconduct and was never issued a query before her termination, which led to her further argument that the termination was an attempt to destroy her teaching career, which she had worked tirelessly to build over the years.

    The defendant, however, argued that Ms Agabo was found guilty of the offence of gross misconduct.

    The school added that because the claimant’s appointment was temporary, it did not need strict adherence to statutory provisions but from the condition of service drawn from the instrument of employment.

    Defense counsel to the school, rested the case by urging the court to dismiss it entirely.

    In response, counsel to Ms Agabo argued that the probation period was supposed to be for one academic calendar year, and his client had become a permanent staff member from September 2018, when the new academic session commenced.

    The counsel stated that the claimant was no longer a temporary staff when her appointment was terminated and urged the court to grant the reliefs sought.

    After evaluating the submissions of both parties, the court held that the school’s failure to confirm the claimant’s employment after one academic session and continuing to keep her in employment was nothing but an unfair labour practice.

    The court also declared that the claimant was deemed to have been confirmed by operation of the law after one academic session.

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    Mr Essien ruled that the failure of the defendant to issue the claimant a query as provided in the contract of employment, which would have allowed her to defend the allegation of misconduct made against her, was a clear breach of the right to a fair hearing as guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution as amended.

    “The defendant painted a horrific picture of the claimant as a dangerous person who should not be allowed to go near schoolchildren but failed to substantiate the allegations. I agreed with the claimant that if this termination is allowed to stand, the claimant may have difficulty furthering her career in the future,” the judge ruled.

    He added: “The defendant cannot, by an unlawful act, impede the claimant’s right to be gainfully employed in the future.”

    (NAN)

    Justice Isaac Essien Lucy Agabo Trinity Model Academy
    Jane Okoro

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