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The slap: sacked security officer wins compensation
A full bench of the NSW IRC has overturned the reinstatement of an experienced hospital security officer who was dismissed for slapping an aggressive psychiatric patient who tried to bite him during a medical procedure, awarding him 26 weeks' compensation instead.
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