Woman wins $10,000 payout after co-worker makes inappropriate remarks

VCAT says treatment was magnified by her situation as a person with a disability entering the workforce

A Melbourne woman has won a $10,000 discrimination payout after a fellow worker told her he owned a gun, admired the killer rapist from Wolf Creek and owned excavation equipment so “it would be easy for me to bury a body”.

The woman was working on a level crossing removal project last year as part of Marriott Support Services, a job program for adults with disabilities, when she complained about treatment she received from a worker on the site.

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