'Extraordinarily heartless': Store sacks chef with cancer for taking sick leave

A Sydney wholefoods store has been criticised by the Fair Work Commission for its "extraordinarily heartless" treatment of a chef it dismissed after he was absent for three days for cancer treatment.

Urban Orchard Food in Sydney's Circular Quay gave chef Chanintorn Siri three days' sick leave when he was admitted to hospital with severe stomach pain related to his pancreatic cancer, but phoned to summarily dismiss him two days later, according to a commission judgment released on Tuesday.The judgment said Urban Orchard's owner Gabrielle Levette had told Mr Siri he was an unreliable employee and that she had offered his job to another cook.

She argued Urban Orchard had complied with the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code because it had "reasonable grounds" to believe Mr Siri engaged in ongoing conduct of fraudulently completing his timesheet.Ms Levette complained Mr Siri had closed the store too early on one occasion, took regular sick leave for no reason and often started late.Extraordinarily heartless disregard for the personal circumstances of another human being who was suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Mr Cambridge said that dismissing Mr Siri over the telephone was "plainly unjust, manifestly unreasonable, unnecessarily harsh, and in this case, unconscionably insensitive". "This unnecessarily harsh approach was compounded by the extraordinarily heartless disregard for the personal circumstances of another human being who was suffering from pancreatic cancer."Mr Siri had worked at Urban Orchard for just over two years and earned about $1000 a week.

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Companies do this all the time with mental illness.... but when it's a real disease everyone be like waaaaaaa.

Don’t go to the union - ask the quiet Australians for some help - apparently they are the ones who know how these things are best dealt with

Not surprised

This is why we have union support. What monsters to do this to the poor man.

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