AACo admits to sacking whistleblower who sent ‘unsafe’ warning
Liam WalshReporter
Key Points
- AACo has defended a lawsuit from an ex-manager about his dismissal.
- It admitted to designating the ex-manager a whistleblower.
- The beef giant says the redundancy was unrelated to safety complaints.
AACo has admitted to sacking a manager a month after he was made a whistleblower for raising safety concerns, but the giant beef producer disputed that the dismissal was related to the complaint.
The Brisbane-based company, which runs 453,000 head of cattle and owns almost 1 per cent of Australia’s land mass, admitted to the whistleblower designation in a defence to a Federal Court workplace lawsuit from former manager Tom Dunn.
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