Cricket Australia was on Monday suspended by int'l women's employment agency Work180 "as outrage grows over its dismissal of a female employee" who criticized the Tasmanian government’s abortion policies, according to Peter Lalor of THE AUSTRALIAN. Angela Williamson, 39, "has gone public with the fact she had to leave the state to have a pregnancy terminated" and was sacked last month by CA after a government staffer "alerted cricket authorities to her critical tweet about access to abortion." Work180 "only admitted the cricket body last month after it passed a number of criteria related to the treatment of female staff." Work180 CEO Gemma Lloyd said, "The story was news to us. Work180 takes these things seriously and we have removed Cricket Australia and their jobs from the website while we investigate." Williamson, who was a manager of public policy and government relations at Cricket Australia, said that she was "devastated" to lose her job. She said, "I feel let down. I believed my advocacy could make a difference on an issue that’s very personal for me. I didn’t think I’d lose my job over it." Williamson on Monday launched a campaign on change.org petitioning the Tasmanian government to "give women access to abortion, which is legal, on the island" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 7/31).
