I see that Silvio Meli, now a judge, isn’t getting any better
Judge Meli has ordered the liquidation of 11 years’ salary (plus more for psychological damage) of a casual nurse who was dismissed from his job at Zammit Clapp Hospital because “he wasn’t giving patients the desired service, to the detriment of their health”.
The man was 52 at the time and this happened four years ago. At 52 he was quite capable of finding other work, but instead Judge Meli, in the deepness of his wisdom, decided to treat the case as though it were one of permanent disability, and as though it was the hospital who had permanently disabled him.
I hope there is an appeal, and that it is won. It’s a shocking case in which a bum who was sacked for not doing his job right has been rewarded with €208,000 at the expense of those who work and don’t get themselves sacked.
Meanwhile, what has Mario Gerada been doing these last four years? If he has been working, then where does that leave this judgement, even if it were not based on such utterly spurious reasoning?
And if he has not been working for these last four years, perhaps the court should have bothered to find out why an able-bodied man in his 50s was sitting around on his backside all day for so long, how he was keeping body and soul together, and who was paying his bills.
This is what the bum has just written on his (obviously) Facebook wall:
INZERTAJT LABURIST TAL-AZZAR………HAZBUNI GWEJJED……….HAZBU LI JISTAW JINTINIDAWNI………..HADU ZBALL. Grazzi hbieb tal messaggi……….qatt ma kelli daqsekk windows fuq il-laptop…………..INKOMPLU NISTENNEW BIS-SABAR.
Gosh, he’s a Laburist tal-azzar. Who would have thought it, eh? Why am I not surprised.
And then some people are sceptical when I say that you can always guess with perfect accuracy how people with this kind of attitude vote. Not all Labour voters are bums with this kind of attitude, not by a long shot. But all bums with this kind of attitude are Labour voters. At least, that’s been my experience.
Min isaqsi lil Aaron Farrugia biex jiddobbalu T-shirt ta’ Obama, u min jiddobba €208,000 minn fuq dahar il-poplu (bhas-Salvatur ta’ ghajnhom, excuse my language, bil-miljun li ha hu), u f’dan il-kaz, bl-ghajnuna tal-istar kendidejt Laburist Robert Abela.
This story just sums up what Labour is all about. I don’t know how all those posers and lah-di-dah empty vessels – the “new Laburisti” who call themselves floaters – aren’t painfully embarrassed to be seen associating themselves in public with this utter muck.
The more I think about it, and the more I see, read, hear and above all, observe, the more obvious it becomes to me that there are negative personality traits which lead people to vote Labour, and positive personality traits which lead them to vote Nationalist.
Now read this story about a Laburist bum and an appallingly irrational man who should never have been made a magistrate let alone a judge.
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timesofmalta.com – today
Former nurse awarded €208,000 for unfair dismissal
A former nurse has been awarded €208,000 after it was proven in court that he was unfairly dismissed.
Mario Gerada claimed that on April 2, 2008, he had been informed that he was being fired from Zammit Clapp Hospital where he was employed as a casual nurse.
He was never given any reasons for the termination and was not given a chance to defend himself.
Subsequently, the Chief Government Medical Officer told the Employment and Training Corporation that Mr Gerada had resigned and not that his job was terminated.
In their response, the CGMO and the director general health care services argued that Mr Gerada’s job was terminated because he was not giving patients the desired service to the detriment of their health.
In his judgement, Mr Justice Silvio Meli condemned the CGMO’s behaviour in declaring that an employee who was fired had resigned.
Such falsification of truth should be harshly condemned and those in charge should take the necessary action to penalise those responsible for it and ensure this did not happen again to ensure the trustworthiness of all public documents.
This was essential for the assurance of a transparent public service that is really serious.
Mr Gerada argued that this happened in 2008 when he was 52 and he could only retire when he was 63, so he had 11 more working years.
As his annual wage was €18,000 he should be awarded €198,000, he claimed.
Mr Justice Meli upheld his request and awarded him another €10,000 for psychological consequences and humiliation.
Dr Robert Abela appeared for Mr Gerada.
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Silvio Meli is a “Laburist tal-azzar” who’s been whining for years on end in a bid to be promoted from magistrate to judge.
He’s now on the same level as Lino Farrugia Sacco and the rest of the red brigade at the Law Courts, Andy Ellul and Vince Micallef included.
Jaqq.
A portent of things to come.
Also on the Laburist tal-Azzar’s Facebook:
“GRAZZI U GRAZZI HBIEB. INKOMPLU NISTENNEW BISS SABAR……………SA META NIFIRHU FLIMKIEN MA JOSEPH MUSCAT PRIM MINISTRU.”
And Nikita Zammit Alamango sent her greetings from the Middle East, via mobile:
“So proud of you ! Greetings from the Middle East”
Meanwhile, the main picture on his Facebook is that of a Mercedes Cabriolet SLK 200, and the related album shows it with number plate MAR 156. And in there is also a picture of the Laburist tal-Azzar with Dr. Joseph Muscat.
Did he buy that car with his salary of a casual nurse of 18,000 euros per annum, while he complains that he cannot afford his water and electricity bills?
They all have Mercs and BMWs on their Facebook page, often with a job status ‘Ma nahdimx ghax tat-tajjeb’
Erm, in their spelling of course.
This is unprecedented surely. How can they liquidate damages for future earnings where there is no impediment to employment?
It beggars belief and will create an awful precedent.
So if this bum had been 30 when the incident happened, would the judge, in his wisdom, have liquidated his salary for 35 years in damages?
If this becomes the norm it is well worth engineering a wrongful dismissal and cashing in on future earnings and early retirement.
My thoughts exactly, and secondly who promoted this upstanding member of the judiciary to a judge?
I am not aware of the details of this case. However the learned judge must have considered Mr Gerada’s dismissal as unjust in order to be granted damages or else that there were no serious reasons to justify his dismissal.
[Daphne – Silvio Meli is not learned. Learnedness is not a requirement for being made a judge in Malta. Nor does being made a judge make one learned. How much more evidence of this do you actually need?]
Such rubbish. The liquidation of damages for lost years of employment can’t be justified by any stretch of the imagination, not when the man is perfectly capable of working and, if we’re to believe him, actually does work.
This Laburist tal-Azzar is another one of those inspired by Napoleon Bonaparte. Favourite quote on Facebook:
“Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) “
Ha! Seeing as we’re on the subject of brave little Catholic Tonio Borg vs the evil liberal Eurobogeymen, here’s a little wisdom from the GREAT Turenne, in a quote which has been attributed to Napoleon, when asked whose side God was on:
“God is on the side of the biggest battalions.”
aka “God fights on the side with the heavier artillery.”
On Facebook, he has an album with his pictures from the Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Mexican Riviera Cruise Aug/Sep 2011.
Mejtin bil-guh il-Laburisti tal-Azzar. Yet, they cannot afford the electricity bills.
Dik il-Mercedes bil-18k euro fis-sena giet…
Is he being serious? Most homes for the elderly constantly need nurses with experience. I’m sure he could have found a job within a year of his dismissal.
Although at any rate I doubt the court would have awarded him as much for simply not being told why he was being dismissed.
How can a casual nurse, supposedly unemployed, find the money for a Mercedes SLK and the annual insurance premium for it?
Well there has been a shortage of nappies lately.
This is simply disgusting. So we’re made to pay for this bum who spends his money on a Mercedes SLK, trips to Las Vegas and cruises, instead of finding a job and working like an honest man.
But who am I kidding he’s neither honest nor a man. The dismissal was unfair granted, but to liquidate 11 years? What was going on through the judge’s head?
Huzzah for double standards.
I don’t think it’s true he was obliged to work till 63.
As the law stands, he can retire at 61 and get his pension, only, he isn’t allowed to work – which is clearly his intention, so much so, that his whole case is that he can’t work. He’s therefore being paid an extra 2 years’ salary ‘gratis’.
To my non-legal mind, this is clearly grounds for appeal too.
Like all people who find themselves on the street with no work , ETC sends a letter to the person involved asking him if the reason for dismissal claimed by the employer is correct. It seems the magistrate did not know about the procedure.
It is not surprising that a bummer bums. It is atrocious is that the taxpayer is made to pay a bummer who had not been doing his job with the required efficiencey and even later after this steely labourer ceased the pretence that he was contributing anything to society.
If this type of madness is prevalent then, horribile dictu, Mintoff might have had the right idea how to treat judges.
I had the misfortune to have two cases in front of this magistrate now judge.
He decides cases on the basis of how politically active the person in front of him is, and if you are a PN guy, he throws the book at you. Or tries.. ….. A laburista tal-amaze and proud of it.
Why he was elevated to a judgeship is beyond me. As for learned, don’t make me laugh.
You’re right. What’s amazing is that he wasn’t made magistrate under Labour and neither was he “elevated” to judge under Labour!
Even judges look ahead.
The losers in this case are the poor, the government will have less money to spend on social security and health. These poor tend to be Labour voters, so Labour supporters should not rejoice at this judgement.
How utterly disgusting. Let’s hope it is reversed on appeal.
I’m sorry but the main blame falls squarely on whoever gave this man a case in the first place.
There are clear guidelines and steps that one must follow before dismissing someone, with or without a justified cause. Had these steps been followed, Gerada wouldn’t have had a case nor a chance in hell of winning (though with our courts you can never tell)
Private companies hardly ever have to pay this sort of money for unfair dismissals because their HR departments are accountable and make sure that they follow procedure.
Bottom line, was this a question of HR incompetence in our civil service, or was the man/woman doing the firing in on the action?
[Daphne – Alison, even a good and proper case for unfair dismissal (which this was not), compensation is not calculated on the basis of your fully and presumed salary in the same job for the rest of your working life plus two years beyond that. You are given a certain sum and then it is expected that you will look for another job, which this man has done, it appears, given that he says on Facebook that he works for a nursing organisation.]
As I said with our courts you can never tell what ridiculous judgement will result, so it proves even further that the best form of action is not to give people a case in the first place.
Are casual nurses employed on a definite contract? If so, his contract would easily have not been renewed.
So let’s boycott this nursing association. I shudder to think what happens to the elderly when faced with this ruffian.
Daphne,can the A.G. appeal against this judgment?
[Daphne – It doesn’t have to be the AG. The hospital might have its own lawyers.]
He is an absolute twit or twat. I would have blocked my Facebook account to “Only Me” after such a generous judgement by “learned” Judge Silvio Meli.
Sometimes I wonder, why is it the men with my name .are always in Sh.. ?
Maybe because they both start with an S.
e.g.
Silvio Berluscon
Silvio Parnis
Silvio Zammit
Silvio (the one in and out of prison)
Silvio (me) always on the receiving end of Daphne’s onslaught
And now Silvio Meli (the money no problem judge}
Well life goes on and the Silvios will be always in the news (mostly bad).
[Daphne – I’ll tell you why I think it is: it’s because they were raised by the sort of parents who would call a boy Silvio. Funnily, though, girls called Silvia did just fine.]
Leopardi’s muse.
Italian romantic literature is dire, but it did inspire Gabry Ponte’s remix. For small mercies…
How cruel.
By the way, when it’s a girl, it’s with the Y.
[Daphne – Not necessarily, no. There were a couple of Silvias in my class at school. Sylvia is the English version; Silvia the Italian.]
All pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal than other pigs. Bet this one thinks of himself as liberal, too.
Look at the other side of the coin, except that it is always US the tax payers that foot the bill.
Unless this decision is challenged in court it becomes a precedent on which future cases will be judged.
This I expect will put some sense into those persons that fire and hire without any considerations.
Poor me who has to pay taxes even on my pension. It is better to be lazy than work hard for others.
I do not think that politics has to do anything here.
It is the judge who in his wisdom awarded such a huge sum for work not done. Who is going to appeal the sentence?
No, Lola, you should be proud of who you are, however little or big you may be. I love cars, but my car, does not dictate how big or small in status I may be. Neither do I need one to give me a reputation as I’ve worked very hard for that, and would not dare lose it for trying to be something I am not or for someone I can’t be.
To be someone with a reputation and losing it, is one thing.
To be no one with a reputation and losing it, is probably the worst thing that can happen to anyone.
I just hope that the majority of nurses, casual or not, aren’t like this guy.