A Perth panel beating business which sacked a long-term employee to prevent him from taking sick leave after he was diagnosed with cancer has been fined and criticised by the Federal Court.
Hi-Lite Automotive has been fined $35,000 and its co-owners Pasquale Minniti and his wife fined $6500 over the issue.
The court found the employee of the panel beating business, a spray painter who had been with the company for nine years, was owed around 500 hours’ sick leave when he told his employer he had cancer.
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