Pres­i­dent of the In­dus­tri­al Court Heather Seale is ad­vis­ing the coun­try’s em­ploy­ers and busi­ness lead­ers to un­der­stand the In­dus­tri­al Court’s pow­ers and pro­ce­dures so they can suc­cess­ful­ly nav­i­gate their mat­ters there.

“It is my view, that the best ap­proach for em­ploy­ers to take, in suc­cess­ful­ly steer­ing their mat­ters through the In­dus­tri­al Court is to be­come well ac­quaint­ed with the Court’s ju­ris­dic­tion and its pow­ers as set out pri­mar­i­ly in the In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions Act, Chap­ter 88:01 (‘the IRA/the Act’) and oth­er rel­e­vant statutes. The Court’s ju­ris­dic­tion and its pow­ers have al­so been ad­dressed over time in pa­pers, ar­ti­cles and judg­ments of the Court, as well as by the Court of Ap­peal and the Privy Coun­cil,” she said.

Seale spoke at a pan­el dis­cus­sion host­ed by the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, West­moor­ings on the top­ic of “Nav­i­gat­ing the In­dus­tri­al Court: Key con­sid­er­a­tions and best­prac­tices for em­ploy­ers” on Feb­ru­ary 21.