{"id":867884,"date":"2026-08-25T13:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867884\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:18:18","slug":"berina-colakovic-how-jai-arrows-family-keeps-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867884\/","title":{"rendered":"Berina Colakovic: How Jai Arrow\u2019s family keeps fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jai Arrow is in the fight of his life.<\/p>\n

The NRL superstar is doing everything he can to keep a cruel motor neurone disease diagnosis at bay while using his profile to raise awareness.<\/p>\n

\"Berina<\/p>\n

Berina Colakovic is in a court battle with her employer after she was suspended the day she came back from maternity leave.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

But behind the scenes, his wife Berina Colakovic is in a court battle with her employer after she was suspended the day she came back from maternity leave.<\/p>\n

In April last year, she went on maternity leave as a senior staffer at AI advertising platform StackAdapt to give birth to her daughter Ayla.<\/p>\n

The day she was due to return to work there was no welcome back party.<\/p>\n

Instead, she received a shock call.<\/p>\n

\"Berina<\/p>\n

Berina Colakovic and Jai Arrow with their daughter Ayla.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

\u201cI was devastated, I\u2019ve been with the business for over seven years, I\u2019ve moved countries for them twice, so I\u2019ve put my hard work and soul into the company,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Colakovic said she was suspended and would be subject to an investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told I was suspended, I was given absolutely no reason for it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt almost feels quite targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company claims Colakovic demonstrated a \u201cpattern of disengagement\u201d in meetings and lacked empathy.<\/p>\n

Colakovic is still being paid but alleges she\u2019s been discriminated against and denied a fair go.<\/p>\n

Watch the full story in the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jai Arrow is in the fight of his life. The NRL superstar is doing everything he can to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-867884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867884","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=867884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}