The High Court (HC) on Thursday scrapped the labour appellate tribunal’s order for paying Tk103 crore dividend to 106 sacked employees and staff of Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus-owned Grameen Kalyan.
A bench of HC Justice Zafar Ahmed and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman passed the order disposing of a rule relating to the case.
At the same time, the court declared the tribunal's order illegal.
According to the judgment, 106 workers can file a case in the laboor court, if they want.
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Earlier on 10 July, the Appellate Division ordered the High Court (HC) to dispose of the rule within two months.
On April 3 this year the appellate tribunal ordered to pay the five percent dividend to the sacked 106 employees and staff of the organization as per Labour Act.
Later, the Nobel laureate submitted a petition challenging the tribunal order.
Following Dr Yunus's petition, the High Court (HC) on 30 May stayed the labour appellate tribunal order.
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According to court sources, the sacked staff and others used to work for the organization from 2006 to 2013.
Later, they were fired on different grounds.
The sacked employees and others first served a legal notice to the organization with an appeal to be paid the dividend but the authority didn’t pay heed to it.
Later, a case was filed with a labour court in this connection.