Carla Gleeson, a former press operator at Stafford Dry Cleaner in Brisbane, has won an unfair dismissal case after the Fair Work Commission found she was dismissed unfairly. The Commission ordered the business to pay her nearly $20,000 in compensation. Her former boss, Demetrius Kamakaris, did not attend the final hearing.

Gleeson had worked at the cleaner for more than three years when Kamakaris took over in October 2025. After a new employee began doing her usual duties, she left work early and later apologised following a heated call and a formal warning; she was dismissed the next day. Days before the hearing, Kamakaris emailed her taunting remarks, calling her “broke and miserable” and saying, “God punishes bad people”; the article does not give further details of the compensation calculation.