Rebel and Macpac’s parent company Super Retail Group has settled its workplace litigation that involved two former staff members suing the company over claims of bullying and harassment.
This comes over a year since the former chief legal officer and company secretary of Super Retail Group, Rebecca Farrell, filed court proceedings against the business as well as the now-former CEO Anthony Heraghty and the former chair Sally Pitkin.
The allegations of bullying and harassment also included a conflict of interest on the part of Heraghty by his alleged failure to disclose the nature of his relationship with the then-chief human resources officer, Jane Kelly.
Heraghty was fired early last week amid new information surrounding the former CEO’s relationship with the chief of HR.
Super Retail confirmed the settlement news in a statement to market this morning, reporting it has been resolved on a confidential basis and without any admission of liability, for an amount less than the range referred to in its initial litigation announcement on April 26, 2025.
In that announcement in April last year, the board of Super Retail Group expected the two former employees to jointly claim loss and damage in the range of $30 million to $50 million.
Harmers Workplace Lawyers, who represented the two former employees, shared that its clients offered to confidentially settle this matter for sums less than one third of the dollar amounts shared by Super Retail Group.