{"id":566887,"date":"2026-03-27T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566887\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:37:09","slug":"report-youll-be-here-forever-amber-sherlock-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566887\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: \u201cYou\u2019ll be here forever,&#8221; Amber Sherlock alleges."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tNew details in Amber Sherlock&#8217;s case against Nine allege she was told her job was not at risk.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>New details have emerged in former Nine presenter Amber Sherlock\u2019s legal case against the network.<\/p>\n<p>According to (Nine owned) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/media-and-marketing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Financial Review<\/a>, Sherlock claims that around August to September last year, she had a meeting at the BarLume cafe on the ground floor of Nine\u2019s headquarters in North Sydney with head of news Fiona Dear.<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock claims Dear told her that her job was not at risk as the company sought to cut costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll be here forever, we\u2019ll wheel you and Pete [Overton] out of here,\u201d Sherlock alleges Dear told her.<\/p>\n<p>However, by November 10 she alleges Nine Sydney news director Michael Best told her that her role was being made redundant as jobs were slashed in its broadcasting and streaming division last November.<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock, in her Federal Court legal documents, alleges a letter from Nine stated the company would explore redeployment opportunities. She expressed interest in three NSW-based journalist roles that were vacant, however two days later, Besst said there were no redeployment prospects available in the Sydney newsroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNine\u2019s decision to redeploy the individuals identified \u2026 was taken because each of those individuals is at least 10 years younger than the applicant,\u201d Sherlock\u2019s court documents state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNine does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age or any other factor. We strongly reject any suggestion that this influences any decision to remove a role that is no longer required in our business,\u201d a Nine spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New details in Amber Sherlock&#8217;s case against Nine allege she was told her job was not at risk.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-566887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}