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Compensation for sex toy prank dismissal

A FEMALE truck driver at BHP’s Caval Ridge mine in Queensland has been awarded $6550 by the Fair Work Commission after it found she was unfairly dismissed over a photograph placed on social media depicting a male colleague at an airport check-in with a sex toy and butter knife that she had placed in his luggage.

Compensation for sex toy prank dismissal

Fair Work commissioner Jennifer Hunt found that Tara Odgers, 49, who was employed by BHP subsidiary Central Queensland Services, should be compensated for procedural errors in the respondent's approach...

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