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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Sarah Lansdown

'Unnecessarily harsh': mother held her four-month-old as she was made redundant

Alicia was holding her four-month-old baby at home when she was told on a video call that she would no longer have a job.

She was on parental leave from the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia when she got the news that her position would be made redundant, cutting her paid maternity leave short by one month.

"I feel that I've been very unfairly treated because it's my belief, my opinion that there is also a duty of care towards employees.

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