Former Port Adelaide player Warren Tredrea is suing Channel 9 for almost $6 million in lost wages after a vaccination saga.
Tredrea is launching legal action in the Federal Court in the wake of his dismissal from Channel 9 after he refused to get the COVID-19 vaccination, with the news announced in January of this year.
The 43-year-old is claiming that he was unfairly dismissed from his $192,500 per year position, asking that the court make Channel 9 pay him the rest of his contract and also up to 30 years of his wage due to the "missed opportunity" of employment.
In a state of claim notice, Tredrea's legal team argued that the safety measures put in place by Channel 9 to stop the spread of COVID-19 were as, if not more, effective than vaccines.
โThere are and were at all material times, other measures and control mechanisms in the workplace that were equally effective as, if not more effective than, vaccination,โ the court document reads.
At the time of Tredrea's dismissal, all employees of the company were required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to be able to work on-site.
Both parties are set to enter mediation to prevent the case from going to a trial, which would be held in 2023.
