Australia: Worker sacked over comparing boss to Hitler

The Left worldwide seems to think it is OK to call Republican Presidents Hitler so calling people Hitler must be OK, I thought

A man is fighting for his right to jokingly mock his employer with a Hitler meme, saying he was “taking the mickey”.

An employee of BP has been sacked after he shared a meme online comparing his employer to Adolf Hitler. Now, he’s fighting the decision.

The former employee of BP has appealed the Fair Work Commission’s decision that his sacking was “not harsh, unjust or unreasonable”, after he earlier lodged an unfair dismissal claim this year.

Scott Tracey was sacked after his employer became aware of a video he shared in a private Facebook group, where he used a meme with a likeness of Hitler to mock the oil company’s bosses.

In the September decision, Fair Work commission deputy president Melanie Binet dismissed Mr Tracey’s original claims he was “taking the mickey” and trying to “use absurdity to make a light point”.

Ms Binet compared the case to previous cases, where a man had carved a swastika, and the words, “Welcome to hell” into an ice block, as part of a protest for having to work inside in a freezer. That man had been dismissed from his job.

But in appealing the decision, Mr Farouque argued the commission had erred in its decision, in both whether the meme itself was worth sacking someone over, and whether the sacking was overly harsh.

The final judgment for Mr Tracey’s appeal has been delayed.

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