A for­mer em­ploy­ee of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) has lost an ap­peal over the dis­missal of her case chal­leng­ing the qual­i­ty of rep­re­sen­ta­tion she re­ceived from the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU).

De­liv­er­ing judg­ment last week, Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh and Ap­pel­late Judges Mark Mo­hammed and Maria Wil­son dis­missed Tiangeh Brath­waite-Ever­s­ley ap­peal seek­ing to re­sus­ci­tate her case against the trade union.

Brath­waite-Ever­s­ley filed the law­suit against the OW­TU as she was not sat­is­fied with how it han­dled her griev­ances with UWI over un­rea­son­able de­duc­tions from her salary, a lack of con­sul­ta­tion re­gard­ing leave en­ti­tle­ments and al­leged pro­mo­tion dis­crim­i­na­tion based on her preg­nan­cy.