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An employer was entitled to reduce a supervisor's pay by nearly $20k after he "provided education" to subordinates about how to escape a sexual assault.
In February 2021, Queensland Ambulance Service found the clinical support officer had made two inappropriate statements when facilitating a training course the previous year. These statements were along the lines of:
The employee disputed the wording, but conceded that he had a conversation with the four participants about distraction and stopping an attack. He allegedly told the employer that his intention wasn't to offend, rather he was "providing education"...
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