The North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) has been or­dered to pay $75,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a for­mer em­ploy­ee it wrong­ful­ly ter­mi­nat­ed.

In a judg­ment de­liv­ered last week, In­dus­tri­al Court Judges Dr Sel­wyn Sama­roo, Caron Lon­don and Rudranath In­dars­ingh up­held a trade dis­pute brought against the au­thor­i­ty by the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) on be­half of hos­pi­tal at­ten­dant Ed­ing­ton Lewis.

The case re­lat­ed to a de­ci­sion tak­en by the au­thor­i­ty not to re­new Lewis’ con­tract in Au­gust 2019 af­ter he had been em­ployed for al­most 15 months.