A high-end Gold Coast nightclub overreacted when it sacked staff for disclosing their colleague’s confidential salary in private messages, the workplace umpire has found.
A high-end Gold Coast nightclub unfairly sacked staff for revealing their colleague’s confidential salary in private messages, with the workplace umpire ruling the dismissals a huge overreaction.
“The way Project 88’s representatives presented the severity of what had occurred during the meetings on February 3, 2023 made it seem like Ms McLeod and Ms Louie had broken into Project 88’s equivalent to a ‘Watergate complex’, stolen key intellectual property secrets and posted them on WikiLeaks,” the commissioner said.“However, all they had done was privately discuss the salary rate of a friend, and the salary rate was quite unremarkable.
Shortly afterwards, senior club manager Louise Huxham – the wife of co-owner Tony Rigas – discovered the message by accessing the ex-employee’s private social media through their former work phone, without their consent. He also rejected that simply discussing work issues with a friend breached Corporations Act provisions about using privileged information to gain an advantage or cause detriment to a company.laws were not technically triggered, he considered they were a “relevant background matter” in assessing whether the conduct was a valid reason for dismissal.
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