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A candidate's job offer was never finalised because the prospective employer had a "profoundly negative reaction" to one of his referees, not because he had made an unfair dismissal claim several years earlier, a commission has ruled.
The candidate sought relief from victimisation in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission, after his application for a senior finance business partner role at Parramatta Council was unsuccessful in July last year.
He alleged the employer's CEO refused to appoint him to the role because he had claimed unfair dismissal in 2019, after his contract with another Council was terminated (that claim was settled).
The candidate claimed that last year, after he was shortlisted and interviewed for the Parramatta Council role, a third-party recruiter told him he'd been offered the position. He then provided three referees, which were forwarded to the employer...
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