The fly-in fly-out worker had her unfair dismissal claim rejected, including that placing her head in a co-worker’s lap was “the usual inconvenience of public travel”.
Already a subscriber?A BHP fly-in fly-out worker who was sacked for rubbing her body up against a co-worker and holding another’s hand while she was drunk has had her claim for unfair dismissal rejected.
Despite its efforts, BHP has faced rising reports of harassment. From 2022-23, it said 165 BHP workers had either quit or wereIn the latest incident from July last year, the female FIFO worker arrived at the Qantas Lounge in Brisbane Airport “extremely intoxicated”.She then approached some workers and allegedly turned her back to one and rubbed her body against him.
The woman argued she had turned to alcohol when her relationship with her partner of 26 years ended in 2021 and admitted she had mental health problems.The next day, she took five weeks’ leave and sought treatment. From that day on she had been sober, she said. The co-worker on the plane said he feared sitting next to her on another flight and had developed an ongoing anxiety about travelling.
On allegedly holding hands on the plane, she argued it was not a conscious decision because she was asleep at the time and so it did not constitute sexual harassment. She rejected the woman’s denials, including that she had been asleep on the plane, and found in both cases that the woman had sexually harassed and humiliated her co-workers.
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