Luxury hotel Sandy Lane has been ordered to pay former employee Alicia Cheltenham more than $33,000 in compensation.The ruling was handed down this afternoon by the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) which found that Cheltenham had been unfairly dismissed from her position as Human Resource Vice President for Compensation and Benefits in July 2016.Delivering the verdict on behalf of the three-person tribunal, Deputy Chair of the ERT Kathy Ann Hamblin asked the claimant whether she wanted to be reinstated or re-engaged with the well-known West Coast hotel.Cheltenham said she preferred to part ways with the establishment where she had worked for seven and a half years before her dismissal.Hamblin outlined that the claimant would receive “an aggregate of a basic award of two and a half weeks pay for each completed year of service, as well as compensation for travel, entertainment and medical allowances for a period of three months assuming that those are the allowances to which she was entitled.
