MEDIA REPORT ANALYSIS

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1. Identify areas of law addressed in the chosen media report, and explain how they are relevant to the matters outlined in the report.

This chosen article reports on the prosecution of the directors of a medical practice company called Medical Centre 2000 at Liverpool in Sydney for discriminating against a visually-impaired employee and underpaying her more than $20,000 for about 3 years.

Civil Law
Civil law can be illustrated in this case when workplace law and disability discrimination have been breached and the victim will be provided with legal remedies by the offenders. In the media report, it have been mentioned that doctors face criminal penalties for underpaying the disabled worker. As a result of this offence, they had to rectify the underpayment of the receptionist after legal proceeding was carried out. She also claimed monetary damages in cash as compensation for her loss and harassment.

Corporations Law
Medical Centre 2000 is a corporation which its business foundation is established, organised and administered regarding corporations law. It was discovered that the company and operators were breaching disability discrimination under the Fair Work Act. When the company received a disability worker subsidy, they were supposed to pay the blind receptionist a rate of $10-$17 per hour instead of paying less than $8 per hour. With that, they have breached their duties and have failure acting in good faith. In order to prevent further offences on her employment right, the medical company and each of its directors are given fine penalties of $88,870 and $17,410 respectively. In regulating corporation law, Fair Work Ombudsman provides reliefs for the offended worker by amending underpayment and giving $5000 for compensating her loss.

Contract Law
Contract is enforceable when the individuals involved enter