Ex-TSTT worker to repay union $.3M
A former Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) employee has been ordered to repay a little over $326,353.22 to the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU). CWU reportedly paid Anika Gaspard’s $15,000 salary for almost two years while it was pursuing a case on her behalf against TSTT in the Industrial Court. The union claimed the payments were made to alleviate her hardship and based on the agreement that it was a loan that had to be repaid if she was eventually successful in the case and awarded compensation. The union, through its lawyer Martin George, sued Gaspard, of Mootoo Lands, Arima, after she...
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