Company to pay fired chef $80,000 after accusing her of leaving freezer open

A sub­sidiary of the Fur­ness Group of Com­pa­nies has been or­dered to pay $80,000 to a chef, who was ter­mi­nat­ed af­ter be­ing ac­cused of leav­ing the door to a freez­er open.

In­dus­tri­al Court Judges Kath­leen George-Mar­celle, Patrick Ra­bathaly, and Stephanie Fin­gal or­dered the com­pen­sa­tion ear­li­er this month as they up­held a trade dis­pute brought against FEP Ser­vices Lim­it­ed by the Bank­ing, In­sur­ance, and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union (BIG­WU) on be­half of Chan­delle Pierre.

“Up­on ma­ture de­lib­er­a­tion, it is held that the work­er Chan­delle Pierre was dis­missed in cir­cum­stances that were harsh and op­pres­sive and not in ac­cor­dance with the prin­ci­ples of good in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions and prac­tice,”