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JUDGMENT
DODOO (MRS), JA
The Complainant/Appellant (who shall in this Judgment be referred to as the Appellant) was employed by the Respondent as its internal auditor per a letter of appointment dated 6th November, 2007 to take effect from 3rd December, 2007. On 25th July, 2016 he was invited to appear before a special fact-finding Committee set up by the Respondent in relation to the Secretariat’s accounts and accounting practices. He appeared before the committee on 2nd August, 2016 and following on that, received a letter dated 31st August, 2016 terminating his appointment on the ground that his “conduct does not meet the highest standard of efficiency and integrity required in the Commission’s Regulations.” After exhausting all the internal mechanisms for redress, he filed a complaint of unfair termination before the Labour Commission (The Commission). The sole relief was for reinstatement effective from the date of his termination.
It was his complaint that the procedure used in…