Antoinette Lattouf is a type. We all know what that type is. I have already posted several comments on the case she is running against the ABC with the help of the leftist law company Maurice Blackburn.
That type is the insufferable self-entitled young woman who does not think she owes it to anyone to follow the rules of the organization she works for. I thought the self-declared Lebanese Muslim was another irritating Gen Z type who couldn’t keep her mouth shut. She just had to give her opinion on a matter that was off limits for ABC employees. But Antoinette is suffering arrested development. She is older than the Gen Z age bracket.
Now Lattouf has offered the ABC a settlement via her lawyers which they describe as ‘modest’. The offer is in the headline to the SMH article below.
As I have said before; the ABC must not back down in this straightforward case of an employee flagrantly ignoring the rules of her employment. It would set a precedent for every self-entitled, young woman who thinks the world must know and benefit from her views.
For once, show some backbone ABC management
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Lattouf’s ‘modest’ ABC offer: $85,000, replacement shifts and an apology
Calum Jaspan, Sydney Morning Herald, July 14, 2024
Compensation of $85,000, a public apology and reinstatement as a fill-in radio presenter are the three items on Antoinette Lattouf’s wish list from the ABC, should the national broadcaster want to avoid a costly trial in the Federal Court.
Lattouf’s legal team, led by Maurice Blackburn’s head of employment law, Josh Bornstein, wrote to the ABC last week offering a compromise settlement after mediation between the parties failed last month.
“The offer is modest and is made on an open basis. It is a compromise on what our client could be awarded at trial if she is successful, particularly having regard to any penalties that may be imposed,” said the letter, seen by this masthead.
In the letter to the ABC’s lawyers at Seyfarth Shaw, Bornstein and his team said if the offer were rejected, they estimated the broadcaster would spend an additional sum in the hundreds of thousands in legal costs, on top of the significant sum it had spent to date.
Lattouf’s team is holding the line on its accusation the ABC breached its disciplinary policies in its enterprise agreement by sacking her for reposting a Human Rights Watch post in December while presenting the Mornings show on ABC Radio Sydney for five days.