The Bermuda Industrial Union is looking into the case of a man who claims he was wrongly dismissed from the Bermuda Hospitals Board in 2013.

The former housekeeper was fired after a female supervisor reported him for using threatening words about another member of staff.

He said he approached his supervisor in housekeeping to inform her that the mother of a man who had physically attacked him worked in his department.

According to the former employee, who has declined to be named, the supervisor had claimed that he said: “I don’t want to go off my head. I just found out that the boy who beat me up in 2002, his mother works here in housekeeping. I don’t know what I’m going to do to her when I see her.”

He denied making that comment, telling The Royal Gazette: “I felt the need to report to management just in case he [his attacker] came in again. Then it would be on record that he had threatened me and this was his second offence, so I have covered my back but in doing so I got myself fired.”

He said he took his case to the BIU after he was fired in 2013 but the union didn’t take up the case — a claim that BIU president Chris Furbert denies. Mr Furbert said he had only recently heard from the complainant and that he had taken up the case in good time.

He added that the union is awaiting certain documentation in order to proceed.

A BHB spokeswoman said: “Bermuda Hospitals Board takes terminations very seriously and follows strict procedures around how they are managed, to ensure it is compliant with the collective bargaining agreement as well as Bermuda legislation. We cannot provide details regarding any individual case, as BHB can only confirm whether someone works for BHB or not. We can state, however, that the appropriate processes have been followed in this matter.”