{"id":41812,"date":"2025-09-25T02:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41812\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:23:09","slug":"fired-dock-worker-reinstated-after-lewd-remark-about-subway-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41812\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired dock worker reinstated after lewd remark about Subway sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">He accepted \u201che zoomed into the pictures of his two female co-workers\u201d, which he had found on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">He also agreed the conversation had not been appropriate for work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">While Fair Work Commission, with Commissioner Scott Connolly, determined Smith could have been fired for the Facebook photo incident, he found Qube\u2019s dismissal of the wharfie was unjust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am not satisfied Mr Smith is a bully or that he has engaged in conduct justifying the termination of his employment in the circumstances of the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">He was unsatisfied the logistics company had proved the Subway sandwich incident had occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">The FWC found Smith\u2019s age, service to the company, and mistakes on Qube\u2019s part outweighed his poor conduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Qube was ordered to backpay Smith in addition to giving him back his job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He accepted \u201che zoomed into the pictures of his two female co-workers\u201d, which he had found on Facebook.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1443,74,1863,11520,37485,26663,42,37487,123,43,37490,37486,37488,10105,37489,13917,40,38,41,39,12767],"class_list":["post-41812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-about","tag-after","tag-back","tag-colleague","tag-dock","tag-fired","tag-headlines","tag-lewd","tag-melbourne","tag-news","tag-penis","tag-reinstated","tag-remark","tag-sandwich","tag-subway","tag-telling","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}