Antoinette Lattouf hearing day three: ABC managing director David Anderson tells court ’we can’t regulate’ what employees post on social media

Unfair dismissal claim is examining how and why reporter was taken off air after she posted about Israel-Gaza war on social mediaFive things we’ve learned this week from Antoinette Lattouf’s alleged unfair dismissal case against the ABCThe hearing has resumed with Ian Neil SC taking his honour through the ABC’s case.After consulting with the acting editorial director Simon Melkman about Lattouf’s “problematic content” – which had been uncovered by the ABC managing director, David Anderson – the ABC decided there was no reason to take Lattouf off air prematurely, Neil tells the court. Continue reading...

Antoinette Lattouf hearing day three: ABC managing director David Anderson tells court ’we can’t regulate’ what employees post on social media

Unfair dismissal claim is examining how and why reporter was taken off air after she posted about Israel-Gaza war on social media

The hearing has resumed with Ian Neil SC taking his honour through the ABC’s case.

After consulting with the acting editorial director Simon Melkman about Lattouf’s “problematic content” – which had been uncovered by the ABC managing director, David Anderson – the ABC decided there was no reason to take Lattouf off air prematurely, Neil tells the court. Continue reading...