A live discrimination complaint wasn't enough to keep his job while the fight plays out
A senior HR manager who says he was fired for raising sex-discrimination concerns has failed to win his job back, after a court refused to return him to the payroll while his complaint plays out.
On August 19, 2026, the Federal Court of Australia turned down a bid by a former General Manager, People and Culture at Australian Irrigation Investments Pty Ltd (AII) to be put back on staff on a temporary basis. The man, a registered psychologist, had held the senior HR role since March 2025. The court was clear that it was settling nothing about who is ultimately right - only whether he should keep drawing a salary while his complaint is looked at separately.
His case was that he had been fired for speaking up. He argued his dismissal was payback for raising sex-discrimination concerns - conduct the law protects. Between May and July 2026, he says, he flagged a series of issues connected to the Sex Discrimination Act: how the company treated a female employee with caring responsibilities, a proposal he made for family and domestic violence leave, a worker at a remote site said to have a history of offences against women, and the company's refusal to take down a sexually explicit calendar at another remote site.
He filed a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission on August 11, 2026. About 30 minutes after the company was served with it, the managing director ended his employment...
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