33 ex-Haveeru employees appeal the 2-year ban

33 former employees of Haveeru have appealed the court order banning any Haveeru employee from working in any other media station for the next two years, submitting the case to both High Court and Supreme Court.

Civil Court ordered Ministry of Home Affairs to penalize any former Haveeru employee found to be working in any other media station for the next two years on Sunday.

It gave the order in its verdict in the Haveeru ownership dispute.

Attorney Husnu Suood has confirmed that the former Haveeru employees have appealed the ban.

Husnu Suood said that the ban was appealed as Civil Court had ordered for measures against them in the verdict of a case they had no involvement in, and had nothing to do with.

He said that their word needed to be sought if a verdict was going to be issued against them, but the court had not done so.

He also added that the ban violated the agreement between them and Haveeru.

Suood also noted that those who had filed the lawsuit over the ownership dispute had not asked for any measure against the employees.

Civil Court issued the 2-year ban saying that employees were vital to any media station, and that they had caused damage to Haveeru when all of them resigned at once. The court said that such measures had been taken up in the past as well, and that it wasn’t illegal to do so.