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Minority rejects reinstatement of mineworker responsible for "homophobic slurs"

An FWC member has criticised the failure of one of his colleagues to properly characterise "crude, lewd and s-xist comments" by a BHP Billiton subsidiary's employee as "homophobic slurs" and rejected out of hand the finding that the conduct was towards the lower end of seriousness.

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