Fair Work

On 21 August 2026, I lodged a Form F8 unfair dismissal application with the Fair Work Commission.

The submission receipt gave me a reference number and told me a case number would follow.

I knew probation created legal complexity.

The purpose of the application was not to pretend the Board had no right to manage probation.

It was to challenge the circumstances and process surrounding the termination and to put my account on the record.

I have spent too much of the previous two years learning what happens when workplace events are reduced to somebody else's summary.

Documentation matters.

Dates matter.

Contemporaneous emails matter.

What somebody knew at the time matters.

That does not mean I want the book of my life to become a legal brief.

It does mean I am no longer willing to assume that truth would automatically survive without records.

The strange part is how quickly the administrative machinery resumed.

One workplace dispute had ended in WorkCover.

Now another employment relationship has put me before Fair Work.

The obvious interpretation would be that I had become somebody who could not stay away from workplace conflict.

I reject that.

There is another interpretation.

I care deeply about doing things properly, and I am prepared to challenge decisions when I believe process, ethics or governance matter.

That can make life harder.

It may also be one of the reasons I am suited to leadership in the first place.