'It takes two to tango': Dovetail hit by new termination threat claims
In house lawyer Bethany Lo Russo has made fresh claims against the company in a revised court filing, including alleged attempts to terminate her role at the startup.
Dovetail's legal counsel Bethany Lo Russo has accused the software startup of threatening to terminate her employment and alleged she was “belittled and intimidated" after a relationship with the software company's co-founder and CEO Benjamin Humphrey ended.
In new court documents filed this week and obtained by Capital Brief Lo Russo also claims Dovetail lacked adequate policies to manage sexual harassment and unlawful discrimination and that the company failed to manage conflicts of interest arising from the romantic relationship.
Lo Russo’s statement of claim and updated originating application were filed in the Federal Court late on Wednesday. Federal Court of Australia Judge Elizabeth Raper set the 5 March deadline last month.
Raper said at the time that an initial originating application filed by Lo Russo’s lawyers last October was a hybrid — neither purely a pleading nor solely affidavit evidence and could be “problematic” as the case proceeds.
