ManlyBacker link said:
The other side is the claims today that a report, following an alleged internal investigation, is circulating clearing Zappia of any wrong-doing. That looks very shaky and we may hear a great deal more about the legality of this, especially as it has been sighted by a journalist.
This is what I was referring to yesterday:
FORMER Cronulla Sharks employee Jenny Hall is considering going to the NSW Police after claims that a signed independent workplace report was circulated to the Sharks board.
On the day that Hall, 25, met NRL chief executive David Gallop for more than an hour to discuss the circumstances before and after she was accidentally punched by Sharks chief executive Tony Zappia, she strongly denied that any signed report existed.
But Hall was concerned by claims that the Sharks board reportedly had a signed document in relation to her incident that she has never seen.
She said she had never been questioned by an investigator, nor had she signed any document in relation to the punch by Zappia or her sexual harassment claim until April this year.
"I have never signed any report or document at all in relation to this, certainly nothing from an independent workplace investigator or even from the Sharks," Hall said.
"If there is such a document with my signature on it then someone is in a lot of trouble. I have never even been questioned by an investigator - if there was one, he wasn't very good."
Hall said she wanted to obtain a copy of the report so she could take it to the police.
Journalist Josh Massoud who wrote of the report in yesterday's Daily Telegraph told the Herald he had seen the report in November and it had two signatures and two names on it - Zappia's and Hall's. Massoud said he believed the report he had seen was legitimate.
Massoud said the report he had seen was conducted by a private investigator and it cleared Zappia of any wrongdoing. In an article back in November, Massoud wrote " Zappia was throwing a playful punch" and he linked Hall with the drama unfolding regarding Greg Bird and his girlfriend Katie Milligan.
But sources close to the case claim there was no such independent report commissioned.
Gallop said: "We were not aware of any so called workplace report, the only report we are aware of is something the Sharks compiled internally, but we have never been given a copy of it."
Sharks media manager Rob Willis said according to the club's human resources department there was no independent workplace report, nor was there any private investigator hired to look at the issue.