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and illegally taking then away from the factory. Faurthly that the plantiff hadwritten three irreasiposible letters to the Minister for Agriculture, to Mirigamo andto the Member of Parliament for Dodoma Urban, complaining about the badmanagement obtaining at the defendant company,. It is there four charges thatthe plaintiff was acquitted of by the worker a committee.The conciliation board declared . to hear the dispute on merits. It held that sincethe plaintiff had accepted payment of the terminal benefits, then he had forteitedhis right to complain to the conciliation board. It further held that by acceptingpayment of the terminal benefits, the plaintiff had concurred with the terminationgiven out by his employer and so he is stopped from lodging a complaint to theconciliation Board. The plaintiff appealed against that decision to the Minister forlabor.The Minister for labour also declined to hear the appeal on merits differentground from that given by the conciliation Board.The minister for labour hold that the decision of the Conciliation Board was fouland void because it heard a dispute roamed to it which was time barred. TheMinister said that according to the law, a complaint to the conciliation Board hasto be filed within 14 days from the day the employed was terminated fromemployment. In this case the employee was terminated from employment on18/12/1996 at filed his complaint to the conciliation board on 8/1/1987 which washome 21 days from the day of termination from employment. And to the Minister615