7 months ago, we told you about Melissa Tucker. She's the Ministry of Education's school Health Coordinator who was sent home in 2013 after 17 years of Government service. Sent home swiftly because she was an open vote worker.
Not satisfied with the way she was terminated, she sued the government because she believed that she was not given due process. She wanted to challenge the open vote regulations because it does not give security of tenure, which can only happen when the Public Service Commission appoints an employee to a post. She said that she was in the process of being appointed, but the rug was pulled from under her when her supervisors sent her home.
Well her attorney argued her case before Justice Shona Griffith, and for the Government's, Acting Solicitor General Nigel Hawke made their defence.
After consideration, Justice Griffith has ruled that though Tucker was employed as an open vote worker, the position she held was not temporary and transient which is what the open vote workers regulations are for. So, she gets vindication, but the open vote workers laws stand.
She is entitled to damages, which will be determined after the judge has examined the written submissions from both sides as to the quantum.
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