Economics professor sacked for ‘personal relationship’ with student
The University of Melbourne has justified its firing of a long-serving economics professor on the basis that he allegedly used his position to “cultivate a personal and inappropriate” relationship with a PhD student.
The university is defending former econometrics lecturer Vance Martin’s $500,000 unlawful dismissal case that claims his sacking over repeated contact with a student more than 40 years his junior was ageism and in response to his workplace complaints.
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