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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Fortescue class action: female workers claim sexual harassment at remote mine sites

Fortescue’s Christmas Creek iron ore mine. A class action includes allegations of ‘serious sexual assaults’. The miner says it’s ‘committed to providing a safe, respectful and inclusive workplace’.
Fortescue’s Christmas Creek iron ore mine. A class action includes allegations of ‘serious sexual assaults’. The miner says it’s ‘committed to providing a safe, respectful and inclusive workplace’. Photograph: Reuters

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue is facing a class action lawsuit from female workers over allegations of systemic sexual harassment, violence and retaliation at the iron ore miner’s remote work sites.

The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in Victoria on Thursday, includes an allegation that a woman was pulled into a dark alley where a man “tried to stick his tongue down my throat”.

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