Interpretation : Statute - Minimum Retirement Age Act 2012 ('MRA 2012') - Claimant retired at 50 years and not 55 years - Section 2, Schedule 1(i), MRA 2012 - Whether claimant covered under MRA 2012 - Contract of employment exceeding 24 months - Whether would bring employee within MRA 2012 - Fixed term contract of 24 months or more - Whether given security of tenure until 60 years of age - Whether deemed a permanent employee - Whether such contract can come to end by way of effluxion of time - Whether MRA 2012 removed such cause for termination of fixed term contracts

Dismissal : Redundancy - Retrenchment - Whether there was legal basis - Claimant's position as Head of Human Resources - Whether surplus and redundant - Whether claimant's duties and responsibilities ceased to exist or diminished - Whether valid retrenchment - Whether dismissal with just cause or excuse