Elvis Queely, Michel Carter, and Jeff Oliver, the employees that were fired.
PHILIPSBURG: The court of First Instance ruled in favor of Windward Islands Airways N.V (WINAIR) on Friday giving the company all rights to dismiss three of their top employees without compensation after they were caught using the company’s intellectual property while working for WINAIR to establish their own airline.
The case brought against the three employees individually was to grant WINAIR the rights to terminate the employees without compensation.
The court ruled in favor of WINAIR citing that the three employees were disloyal to their employer when they used the company’s information to form their own company which would be in competition of the national airline while working for WINAIR.
WINAIR also brought another case against the three top employees namely Michel Carter, Elvis Queely, and Jeff Oliver.
In that case WINAIR wanted the court to prohibit them from using the company’s intellectual property, recruiting staff from the company, and to order them to return all intellectual property they have in their possession from the company. WINAIR asked the court to impose a daily fine starting from $10,000.00 per day to a maximum of $1M. The court dismissed that case.
The three employees Oliver, Carter and Queely were first suspended then fired after they informed their bosses that they were involved in providing consultancy work for person that are interested in launching a new airline that will compete with WINAIR.
The “three wise men” as they are famously known as told their employers that instead of being paid for their services they were given shares in the company.
The three senior staff members were working together with a former employee that was fired from the company for alleged theft, that person Rolando Brison opened his own company which a marketing agency and also a business partner in the new airline that will soon be established if they managed to obtain a license to operate.
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