The Court of Appeal confirmed a ruling which ordered that HSBC Malta should pay a former employee whose dismissal was deemed unjust the equivalent of three years’ salary, rejecting the bank’s argument that the far smaller amount of compensation awarded by the Industrial Tribunal was sufficient remedy.
Collective agreements, the judges emphasised, were legally binding, and whatever intentions or interpretations one might have were secondary to what emerged from the agreement itself.
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