Journalist seeks big penalty after illegal ABC sacking
ABC can be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars to illegally terminate Lattouf, an illegal publisher Antoinette through a social media mail.
In 2023, Lattouf, who was dismissed from ABC Radio Sydney’s ordinary role in the morning program, won an illegal termination case in the federal court in June.
He and the public publisher return to court on Wednesday to discuss what ABC should be sentenced.
Following a coordinated complaint campaign from pro -Israeli lobbyists, Lattoufa damaged $ 70,000 because it was thrown into a five -day daily trace that lasted three days.
The Lebanese heritage, Lattoff, shared a human rights task that uses hunger as a “war weapon önce in Gaza before the end of Israel’s position.
Justice Darryl Rangiah rejected the journalist for reasons involving ABC’s political view, violating the labor law.
Lattouf said that his team would discuss “hundreds of thousands of dollars ında in penalties.
He said ABC was fair between $ 37,000 and $ 56,000.
“A penalty hearing is not just a penalty – he sent,” Mrs. Lattouf sent on X on Sunday.
“Theoretically, the court sends a broader message that it will not be cheap to break the workplace laws and that criminals do not treat it as a business expense… A punishment without deterrence is only the words on the paper.”
Contact ABC for a comment.
Any fine will pale against ABC’s legal costs defending the case.
According to lawyer Josh Bornstein, Lattouf offered to solve the case for $ 85,000 in August 2024, including an apology and five radio shifts.
However, ABC General Manager Hugh Marks said that extra radio nests were an adhesion point before because they could endanger independence on the editorial effect.
Justice Rangah found that a campaign of the publisher’s campaign against Lattouf by a pro -Israeli group of lobbying during the dismissal of the publisher was under pressure.
ABC did not give him the chance to defend the allegations, and instead showed him the door.
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