{"id":8151,"date":"2009-05-18T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8151"},"modified":"2009-05-19T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T20:30:10","slug":"fired-surfer-wins-the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8151","title":{"rendered":"Fired Surfer Wins The Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/0663178400jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/0663178400jpg.jpeg','popup','width=316,height=237,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/0663178400-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"0,,6631784,00.Jpg\" \/><\/a>Former WCT surfer <strong>Shane Bevan<\/strong> was fired from his job as a baggage handler at <strong>Oceania Aviation Services<\/strong> twenty months ago after his employer accused him of participating in Queensland&#8217;s <strong>Coolum Classic<\/strong> surf contest while on &#8220;sick leave with a bad back&#8221; according to a story in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,25503818-5006786,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But now, after two reviews by Australia&#8217;s Industrial Relations Commission it has been determined that Bevan should not have been fired.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The IRC initially upheld his sacking but, on appeal, a commission full bench last week supported Mr Bevan&#8217;s claim that the termination was harsh, unjust and unreasonable and ordered the company to pay compensation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice work, Shane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,25504456-601,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former WCT surfer Shane Bevan was fired from his job as a baggage handler at Oceania Aviation Services twenty months ago after his employer accused him of participating in Queensland&#8217;s Coolum Classic surf contest while on &#8220;sick leave with a bad back&#8221; according to a story in The Australian. But now, after two reviews by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8194,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions\/8194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}