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Two related companies and a director, who sexually harassed multiple young employees, have been convicted and fined a total of $290k. Meanwhile the Federal Government is reportedly rolling back some casual reforms in the Closing Loopholes Bill.

Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard the director, who was aged in his 50s, sexually harassed six staff members, aged as young as 16 years old, through touching, groping, and sexually intrusive and suggestive comments.

The man was the sole director of Whitelom Investments Pty Ltd and a joint director of Whitelom Pty Ltd, which respectively operated cafés at two separate Victorian hospitals...