Court rules surgeon should not have missed out on job

THE Labour Court has upheld a decision by the Rights Commissioner that a surgeon who held a temporary contract working in a Kerry Hospital for four years should not have missed out on a full-time post when was advertised.

The court upheld the commissioners ruling that Asem Hamdy should be awarded €30,000 and should be reinstated “on a contract of indefinite duration in his employment with the HSE”.

Mr Hamdy had held the post of temporary consultant surgeon at Kerry General Hospital under nine successive contracts from December 1, 2001 to September 30, 2006.