The ABC discovered this morning how a lot it must pay as a penalty to Antoinette Lattouf for unlawfully terminating her employment.
Federal Court Judge Darryl Rangiah present in June that Lattouf was sacked over her views on the Israel-Gaza battle. The sacking got here after a lobbying marketing campaign from a pro-Israel group that went on to the previous chair of the ABC, Ita Buttrose, and managing director David Anderson.
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“[Former ABC chief content officer] Mr Oliver-Taylor sought to appease members of the general public who would attribute to Ms Lattouf the holding of anti-Israeli and antisemitic opinions by taking her off air,” Justice Rangiah mentioned.
The identities of these lobbyists are topic to a suppression order for the following 10 years — an order granted by Justice Rangiah as a part of proceedings.
In June, Rangiah awarded Lattouf $70,000 in compensation for non-economic loss, which suggests the ABC’s extra penalties on high of authorized prices add as much as $220,000.
Crikey has damaged down what his newest orders quantity to, by the numbers.
The tremendous the ABC should pay Lattouf: $150,000
Former chair Ita Buttrose’s compensation in 2024, the 12 months during which she acted in direction of Lattouf’s sacking: $150,049
Lattouf’s damages for non-economic loss: $70,000
The quantity of taxpayer cash spent on authorized charges by the ABC: In extra of $1.1 million, per a Senate estimates listening to in February
The variety of stuffed Blueys you could possibly purchase with the tremendous the ABC paid to Lattouf: 5,172
David Anderson’s annual wage in 2024: $1,159,493 (7.7 instances the worth of the penalty)
The variety of hours Lattouf must work to be paid the quantity the ABC has now paid in penalties for sacking her, primarily based on her five-day contract’s base fee of $52.72 an hour: 2,846
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The variety of years the median Australian must work to be able to repay the ABC’s whole spend on the Lattouf case: At least 17 years
The variety of days since Lattouf was sacked: 644
The size of time former chief content material officer Chris Oliver-Taylor must work to compensate for the ABC’s whole outlay on account of his sacking of Lattouf: At least 1 12 months, 10 months and 9 days, primarily based on his 2024 whole compensation of $672,744
The variety of Fair Work Act breaches by the ABC: Four
The theoretical most that the ABC might have been fined by the Federal Court for 4 contraventions of the Fair Work Act in sacking Lattouf: $375,600
The “contrition cost” that the ABC made to the Commonwealth final time it breached the Fair Work Act and underpaid employees: $600,000
