SouthernPie
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- Nov 12, 2019
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Yeah, good point about the training and monitoring. Still, the training would've needed to be quite explicit in Heritier's case eg "If someone says it's fine to call them chimp, still don't do it"!! I would think that monitoring will hopefully become a standard practice going forward. Not just for POC, but for all players, to ask them directly and in confidence, on a regular basis, if they feel subjected to discrimination of any kind. This could be part of the Welfare Officer's job description - if such a position still exists? I think McCaffer was doing something along these lines at some point?I'm no lawyer either, but in terms of the chimp name - even if complicit or more - I reckon he could build a pretty good case of the club not providing necessary training or monitoring and thus an unsafe environment. THough it might be hard for him to demonstrate damages in order to receive a payout.
Getting awarded damages in the form of any substantial financial payout seems to be really tough to achieve for any employee of any institution. Look at how difficult it was for the Melbourne player (apologies for not immediately recalling his name) to get damages for his demonstrated CTE.