Screenshot of the movie Downfall showing Bruno Ganz in a scene portraying Adolf Hitler.
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A refinery worker in Australia has received nearly $ 200,000 in damages from BP after being fired over a Hitler meme he shared, which turned out to be mocking his bosses over wage negotiations.
Australia’s Fair Work Commission decided on Monday that BP Scott Tracey should pay $ 177,324.93 in lost wages and bonuses, minus tax, in addition to $ 24,069.99 in pension contributions. Tracey was also rehearsed by the oil jay.
Tracey was fired last year for sharing a video that appeared to make fun of his bosses ’dealings on wage negotiations. His wife claimed to make the video.
It has a well-known clip from the German-language film Downfall from 2004, which Hitler portrays to generals after hearing the news that he lost World War II. The video has become famous with replacement English subtitles to portray a number of parodied “Hitler rants”.
BP dismissed Tracey, claiming that the video was senior management compared to Nazis and that a colleague broke the clip on a BP computer’s code of conduct.
Tracey’s unjustified claim was initially rejected by the FWC in September 2019, when her deputy president Melanie Binet ruled that the video was’ insulting and indecent. ‘
However, that decision was reversed in February, when Tracey saw his job re-established at BP’s Kwinana refinery in Perth, Western Australia.
FWC commission officials then asked Tracey and BP to provide further evidence on the question of whether he should receive compensation for his time off work. As part of this, BP disputed that Tracey should not be compensated more than $ 152,539.19, claiming that his actions were still counted as abuse.
BP had not responded to CNBC’s request for comment at the time of this writing.
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