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Newshound
17-07-2013, 10:20 AM
The Federal Court recently fined the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) $37,000 and ordered it to reinstate an academic for using a sham redundancy to "get rid of an undesired employee".

The university claimed it had made the academic redundant for financial reasons, as her area was running at a loss, however Justice Peter Gray found RMIT took unlawful adverse action when it dismissed the academic after she had fallen out with her head of school.

Read more... (http://www.clarkekann.com.au/images/stories/newsletters/Alerts/ShamredundancyusedtoremoveemployeeJuly2013.pdf)