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Scaffolding worker forced back to UK awarded $16k for unfair dismissal
Topic Started: Jun 22 2011, 09:39:14 AM (328 Views)
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A BRISBANE businessman has been ordered to pay a former employee - who was forced to return to the United Kingdom when his special skills visa was rescinded - $16,000 in compensation for unlawful discrimination.

The Queensland Civil and Administration Tribunal has ordered scaffolding business owner Malcolm Lightfoot pay former employee James Dean Webb , a British national, after his employment was unfairly terminated over a work injury.

QCAT member Roxanne Clifford, in a just-published eight-page decision, said Mr Webb moved his family from the UK to Australia to work for Mr Lightfoot on a temporary "457 visa" - given to skilled overseas workers - in September 2008.

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Ms Clifford said Mr Webb and his family were forced to return to the UK on February 5, 2009.

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Mr Webb's employment was finally terminated in a letter dated October 13, 2009 in which Mr Lightfoot advised the Englishman that his "position had been made redundant."

"Mr Webb claims that his employment came to an end because of his impairment, a back injury, he claims was sustained in the workplace," Ms Clifford said.

"(He) claims Mr Lightfoot used the word redundancy in the letter to meet the requirements of the Department of Immigration and that the true reason his employment came to an end was because he was a thorn in the side of Mr Lightfoot."

Ms Clifford said Queensland's anti-discrimination laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of impairment and that Mr Webb was entitled to compensation for a "contravention of the law."

She ordered Mr Lightfoot pay Mr Webb $16,000, within 60-days, in compensation to cover pain and suffering and the costs of relocating his family back to the UK.


http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/scaffolding-worker-forced-back-to-uk-awarded-16k-for-unfair-dismissal/story-e6freoof-1226079669950
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