Re: Australian safe workplace ethics
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Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
In article <4b70b0f7$0$12458$bbae...@news.suddenlink.net>,
"harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
>
> it is very sad that hunter's friends and relatives should continue to
> patronize this cafe like it is a mere statistic.
>
>
> "Torpedo" <gu...@unknown.com> wrote in message
> news:hkok83$ojq$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
> > ...if this can happen to a young Aussie employee, what's happening then
> > with
> > the employees of different ethnic backgrounds?
> >
> > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/08/2813468.htm
> >
> > 'They drove her to the edge and pushed'
> >
> > By Alison Caldwell for The World Today
> > Posted 3 hours 38 minutes ago
> > Updated 2 hours 13 minutes ago
> >
> > The mother of a young waitress who took her own life after enduring
> > persistent harassment by colleagues hopes her story will encourage others
> > to
> > speak out against workplace bullying.
> >
> > Brodie Panlock, 19, left behind two brothers and her parents when she took
> > her own life in 2006 after enduring persistent bullying by three of her
> > colleagues at Melbourne's Cafe Vamp.
> >
> > She was spat on and regularly called names such as fat and ugly.
> >
> > Nicholas Smallwood, 26, Rhys MacAlpine, 28, and Gabriel Toomey, 23, all
> > pleaded guilty to charges under Victoria's Occupational Health and Safety
> > Act and were fined between $10,000 and $45,000 each.
> >
> > Convictions were recorded for the men.
> >
> > Cafe Vamp's owner, Marc Luis Da Cruz, was fined $220,000 for failing to
> > provide a safe workplace.
> >
> > Speaking outside court, Brodie's mother, Rae Panlock, described her
> > daughter
> > as a beautiful girl who was full of compassion.
> >
> > "She was just my little ray of sunshine and she was really a very
> > compassionate loving kid and a very, very pretty girl," she said.
> >
> > "[The] things that they said about her, what can you say? It just breaks
> > your heart and as far as I am concerned, they drove her to the edge and
> > they
> > pushed her over.
> >
> > "They should be in jail. Simple as that."
> >
> > She says she is happy the case has been taken seriously by WorkCover.
> >
> > "I am just hoping that now there will be a lot more young girls out there
> > that hopefully will now come forward," she said.
> >
> > 'Poisonous' workplace
> >
> > Ms Panlock started working as a waitress at Cafe Vamp in Hawthorn in
> > Melbourne's inner-east in 2005.
> >
> > At the time, aged 18, she was having a sexual relationship with the
> > manager
> > of the cafe, Smallwood.
> >
> > But that did not stop Smallwood from subjecting her to constant verbal and
> > physical harassment at work, egged on by co-workers MacAlpine and Toomey.
> >
> > Magistrate Garry Livermore described the atmosphere in the cafe as
> > poisonous.
> >
> > He said they regularly insulted Ms Panlock by calling her fat, stupid,
> > ugly
> > and a whore. He said they regularly criticised her clothes, jewellery and
> > her haircut.
> >
> > A co-worker told the court that at one stage she saw MacAlpine holding Ms
> > Panlock while Smallwood poured fish sauce all over her.
> >
> > The Magistrate said a colleague telling them to let up on the treatment
> > made
> > no difference whatsoever.
> >
> > The court was told that after Ms Panlock attempted suicide in 2006,
> > Smallwood taunted her that she could not do it properly and put rat poison
> > in her handbag.
> >
> > The colleague warned him to stop harassing Ms Panlock and said "if you
> > don't, you'll have blood on your hands".
> >
> > In September 2006, Ms Panlock jumped from an apartment building and died
> > three days later in hospital from head injuries.
> >
> > In 2009 Smallwood was charged with failing to look after people in the
> > workplace. Sometime after that he moved interstate where he got a job as a
> > waiter.
> >
> > Today the court was told he had since lost his job.
> >
> > He and his two colleagues, MacAlpine and Toomey, pleaded guilty to charges
> > of failing to look after people in the workplace.
> >
> > Da Cruz pleaded guilty to failing to provide a safe workplace. He is also
> > planning to move interstate and sell the cafe.
> >
> > MacAlpine wants to become an actor while Toomey is a chef at a restaurant
> > in
> > Collingwood.
> >
> > Vicious culture
> >
> > Stan Krpan, the acting executive director of WorkSafe Victoria, says the
> > penalty is significant and sends out a strong message.
> >
> > "We are hoping that it creates a turning point in relation to this issue.
> > It
> > is a very serious issue - bullying at the workplace," he said.
> >
> > "The penalties are amongst the highest penalties that we've seen in
> > relation
> > to individuals under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
> >
> > "Obviously this is a deeply sad and tragic prosecution. It was a very
> > important prosecution for us to take.
> >
> > "It sends a very clear message to the community that this sort of
> > behaviour
> > is vicious, it shouldn't be tolerated and it won't be tolerated. It is
> > just
> > not acceptable."
> >
> > He says this case presents the most serious example of workplace bullying.
> >
> > "The culpability was high. The culture at this workplace was vicious and
> > it
> > wasn't acceptable," he said.
> >
> > "That is the sort of message that we want to send to the community - that
> > this needs to be stamped out and that it shouldn't be tolerated."
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Hunter
> Is this hunter a Christian missionary?
I'm about as Christian as you are Indian.
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Hunter <hunt...@iinet.net.au> posted:
> Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> > Is this hunter a Christian missionary?
> I'm about as Christian as you are Indian.
Then you are very much a Christian because I am very much a Bharatiya.
harmony
habituated druggie looking for drugs.
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Hunter
> In article <hl27aj$vc1$3...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Hunter <hunt...@iinet.net.au> posted:
>
>> Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
>>> Is this hunter a Christian missionary?
>
>> I'm about as Christian as you are Indian.
>
> Then you are very much a Christian because I am very much a Bharatiya.
Hahaha you're a fucking liar. I'm about the furthest thing from one of
you religious loons, and you don't even remember what it is to be
Indian. You're a parasite sucking blood from the western world, you've
forsaken India and despise the place you live, and despise yourself for
being so weak that you have to live there, cos you could never make it
in India as a REAL Indian.
Hunter
> young kids in india
Was wondering when you'd get back to peddling your wares like you were
caught out doing a few years ago. Tell me, why don't you ever tell
people when you're peddling your extremist religious propaganda about
the pedophile shops you and jai run in Goa to fund your terrorist group???
Oh dear, don't you want people knowing the truth about you Hindutva
lunatic immoral scumbags and how you fund your operations?
Hint for everyone, look up the truth about Devadasi in India today.
Child prostitution under the guise of religion in many cases where the
law turns a blind eye, and harmony has happily admitted to
"administering" a couple of these so-called "temples" at great profit.