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BWS 6 Still Fighting Their Termination
posted (July 8, 2014)
The BWS 6 - they are the employees who were fired from the water company in February of 2013. Don Gillett, Colin Morrison, Charlette Barnett, Michael Novelo, Journett McKoy, and Mark Menzies were fired - officially - for redundancy, but they say it was really victimization, a purging of the ranks after emails and letters were circulated around about sex scandals happening within the company.

Today their wrongful termination suit went to trial before Justice Michelle Arana. When arguments broke at noon, the attorney for Mark Menzies, Senior Counsel Said Musa, told us about the suit:..

Rt. Hon. Said Musa, Attorney for Terminated BWSL Employee
"The company is maintaining that they were release on grounds of redundancy, when in fact their clear ascertian is that they terminated wrongfully based on some investigations that the company people were carrying out concerning letters that were circulating attacking staff members and they were being accused, investigated and as a result they were wrongfully terminated."

Reporter
"So your clients are seeking damages.....?"

Rt. Hon. Said Musa, Attorney for Terminated BWSL Employee
"They are seeking damages for wrongful termination, wrongful dismissal of their jobs. In the case of my client for instance, Mark Menzies, he's been there going on thirty-three years at the time when he was terminated on the grounds of redundancy and yet shortly after, as the case will show eventually that his job was replaced by others."

"Its so coincidental that the very next day certainly after my client was terminated, he was terminated on February 6th and a memorandum went out on February 7th from the CEO of the company stating exactly why these people were terminated to teach them a lesson because of the whole issue of this internal turmoil that was going on; people being accused of all kind of siliceous things going on in the company. In fact they were victimize, all of them and wrongfully terminated. That issue about redundancy, in our view was just to paper over it."

Menzies and the others, who are being represented by Tricia Pitts-Anderson, are asking for general damages related to unlawful termination and various assorted other damages for special circumstances. BWS is reprinted by Rodwell Williams. Arguments continued through this afternoon and will wrap up tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.

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