Fortescue class action: female workers claim sexual harassment at remote mine sites

One woman says she found man in her room at WA fly-in, fly-out accommodation while another states she was ‘howled’ at, federal court told

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Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue is facing a class action lawsuit from female workers over allegations of systemic sexual harassment, violence and retaliation at the iron ore miner’s remote work sites.

The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in Victoria on Thursday, includes an allegation that a woman was pulled into a dark alley where a man “tried to stick his tongue down my throat”.