"And he calls himself a proud Australian.

Nick Tabakoff in the Herald Sun looks at Greg Norman's handling of his design office closure and questions about termination pay for his staff.

The ex-employee also said that while the Sydney office had fewer than 15 staff, it was "part of a larger company that employs about 40 people globally".

Norman was at the top of the latest BRW Sports Rich List, earning $15 million last year, largely because of the successful golf course design company.

Fair Work Australia guidelines specify redundancy payments are required to be made to terminated staff of a company with "15 or more employees".

Many Australian companies have historically chosen to pay four weeks' redundancy pay for every year of service, which would have allowed Norman's longest-serving ex-member of staff to be paid 40 weeks' redundancy.

Even baseline new national employment standards provide for a minimum 12-16 weeks' redundancy for staff of companies of 15 staff or more.

But Mr Steven said he received a "letter of termination" delivered in person by company vice-president, Jason McCoy, on April 30 - the day he was made redundant.

"It said I would just get statutory entitlements," he said. "It didn't even state I was being made redundant. It just said my termination was effective immediately."