Respect for the goods of others
“The seventh commandment forbids theft, that is, usurping another's property against the reasonable will of the owner.”
Catholic Church. (1997). Catechism of the Catholic Church. (2nd ed.). Libreria Editrice Vaticana. (para.2408). Online: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P8B.HTM
On 1 December 2020, I received a letter from JFMLAW. I couldn’t view for my emotional safety and wellbeing. I assume unacceptable advice, again.
It’s unethical and unacceptable for a client to plead for a meeting to brief their lawyer. I’m angry at the professional negligence.
Honestly, I had a right to a safe work environment. I shouldn’t have needed a lawyer for that. It’s an employer’s legal obligation and duty of care as per WHS codes and regulations.
Institutional abuse and undisclosed conflicts of interest to obstruct justice, as illegal adverse action, including wage theft via fraud as per Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), is definitely not what a publicly funded PCBU, and its self-insurer registered with the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profit Commission, should be doing.
But what a birthday gift from the employment lawyer, who was supposed to listen and take care of the interests of their client. This is my life’s work and these were serious offences committed by a publicly funded university and its “non-profit” self-insurer, as adverse action for requesting a safe work environment. It was this very same employment lawyer whose advice I followed to make a claim because, “It’s not worth your health”! See http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/05/i-advise-you-make-workers-compensation.html.
Is my safety at work exempt for Minister Sophie Cotsis, who authorised the latest SafeWork NSW campaign called IRREPLACEABLE? See https://www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-releases/irreplaceable-new-safework-campaign-and-1277m-budget-injection-to-further-protect-workers and https://www.safework.nsw.gov.au/advice-and-resources/campaigns/irreplaceable.
What about for Minister Jihad Dib regarding SIRA NSW’s failure and repeated refusal to enforce compliance on a self-insurer committing the crime of workers compensation fraud, for years! Finally, there’s a Public Accountability and Works Committee inquiry, where I made my own submission of evidence. See https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=3108
Going back to the “services” of an employment lawyer at this time, how could I ever compete with such abuse of power and undisclosed conflicts of interest across jurisdictions, as I now know to be the case! How could anyone!
See http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/04/employment-lawyer-3-part-5-unacceptable.html and http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-unfair-work-commission-denying.html.
- No one kept me safe!
- No one protected me from WHS offences, especially when it was a core responsibility to do so;
- No one stopped the harm and injuries by the cause of my claim, still ongoing UNDER WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATIONS;
- No one stopped the workers compensation fraud by the self-insurer and enforce the injury management plan agreement on both employer and self-insurer, who repeatedly refused to COOPERATE.
On 7 December 2020, the mockery and harm from unethical governance practices and poor operational management within a publicly funded university, became worse. I received a degrading letter from payroll that added to my distress, indignity and injury.
Payroll “claimed” that I was on unpaid leave, and they overpaid me. Payroll requested I pay back $5,871.69.
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| Wage theft via fraud + 305 days of stolen accrued leave entitlements since 2 July 2019 as adverse action for requesting a safe work environment. |
I was NOT on unpaid leave.
I was HARASSED through 305 days of accrued leave entitlements by HR senior executives, especially the national manager of employment relations and SAFETY, and her equally reckless WHS staff (two decades worth of personal, annual and long service leave).
This theft began from the day I reported serious psychosocial hazards. All that was required to resolve this issue were some agreed boundaries to MANAGE THE PSYCHOSOCIAL HAZARDS.
See http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/09/theft-of-two-decades-of-accrued-leave.html.
Payroll wanted me to return money they were stealing from me. You cannot make this up, if you tried.
Here’s my question. Why didn’t the solicitor at JFMLAW pick up on this weird letter? This crap came via the employment lawyer. As I said, I was never on unpaid leave and this is the same solicitor who advised me to make a workers compensation claim, because it “wasn’t worth my health”.
Why didn’t the employment lawyer agree to meet with me, so I could brief her on the sequence of events from 22 May 2020, when I submitted the first certificate of capacity? I needed to inform her about the serious misconduct from staff within the NTEU, who had agreed to allow the wage theft, workers compensation fraud, harassment and other WHS violations to happen.
This abuse and crime of fraud was happening DURING my union membership, from the time we discovered the perpetrator, Rena Christmann, had intercepted my personal and private emails to my union reps. See http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/07/prohibited-workplace-surveillance.html
My career, university degrees and ethical hard work are of equal value to these legal professionals. But I don’t get paid what they do. Their professional negligence caused me harm financially, and to my health and wellbeing. I now distrust lawyers. They are triggers of trauma too.
See http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/05/lawyer-client-relationship-in-workplace.html and http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/09/injury-management-and-rehabilitation.html
On 9 December 2020, I released the employment lawyer and enlisted a workers compensation lawyer to “dispute” the self-insurer’s decision. As I said in the previous post, I realised, in my case, I did not need to enlist an IRO funded workers compensation solicitor. But I did need a regulator who would enforce compliance on ALL key stakeholders.
Little did I know, at this time, more injury would be inflicted on me in the new year. Serious systemic abuse, especially caused by the dereliction and maladministration of both SafeWork NSW and SIRA NSW.
As for payroll, see http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2024/07/part-2-organisational-culture-cons.html where another employee commented about a change in pay date, which meant pay would be delayed for three weeks. When the employee asked to receive one week in advance (which they had already worked, so it wasn't in advance, and it was to cover costs like fuel required to get to work), the employee was basically told “you must be joking we don't do that kind of thing here”.
This is NOT good governance in a publicly funded university. There is NO DIGNITY. There is NO RESPECT. There is NO SAFETY. Only abuse, slave labour, fraud and wage theft, serious psychological terrorism including theft of 305 days of accrued leave entitlements, stolen via relentless and ongoing harassment!
Complete theft of everything from an employee who applied the university IDENTITY and MISSION, who worked with integrity and contributed ethically, for the benefit of the university community, for over twenty years. COMPLETE THEFT IN THE CRIMINAL ACT OF FRAUD.
See an update on the Senate Inquiry that recently published 12 recommendations.
“Public money comes with public accountability.”
Duffy, C. (2025, 19 September). 'Senate inquiry calls for cap to vice chancellor pay as chair lashes 'rotten culture' hurting university staff and students.' ABC News. [Online]:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/senate-inquiry-interim-report-university-governance/105795694
This post is based on documents 130-131 & 134. It displays adverse action for requesting generally protected workplace rights, harassment, wage and leave entitlements theft, privacy violations, deception, workers compensation fraud and reckless conduct that condones engaging in WHS breaches and creating psychosocial hazards, not managing the risks as the PCBU is reasonably expected to do so, BY LAW.
Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) Part 4AA: https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-1900-040#pt.4AA
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