{"id":865002,"date":"2026-08-23T01:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865002\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T01:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:38:15","slug":"melbourne-football-clubs-sacked-ceo-paul-guerra-launches-unfair-dismissal-claim-worth-over-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865002\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Football Club\u2019s sacked CEO Paul Guerra launches unfair dismissal claim worth over $1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Football Club\u2019s former chief executive Paul Guerra is suing the AFL club and president Steven Smith for unfair dismissal in a claim expected to exceed $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Court records show that Guerra, through his lawyers Baker McKenzie, filed a claim against the club and Smith under the Fair Work Act last week, on August 19, alleging his dismissal contravened general protections in the act.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Football Club\u2019s former chief executive Paul Guerra is suing the AFL club and president Steven Smith for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-865002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865002","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=865002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}