[2015] FWC 4098
General information, not legal advice.
Fair Work Commission
2015-07-13
Commissioner Booth
Original judgment source is linked above.
(#P60_4247) Print J4414, Re Clothing Trades Award 1982(1)[1990] AIRC 980; , at 126; see also Maritime Union of Australia v FBIS International Protective Services (Aust) Pty Ltd () and cases discussed there.
(#P69_5839) Print J4414, Re Clothing Trades Award 1982(1)[1990] AIRC 980; , (1990) 140 IR 123 at 128.
(#P123_10804) MUA v FBIS
(#P132_11295) [2015] FWCFB 87
(#P137_12402) [2013] FWC 4484 at paragraph [14]. Additional commuting travel was also relevant in several other single member decisions including Australian Workers' Union v Barminco Pty Ltd [2015] FWC 99 (additional 40 or 50 minutes each way not unacceptable); Children's Services Support Unit (CSSU) Inc [2014] FWC 7503 (additional travel about 70km each way and reduced pay - no reduction in redundancy ordered); Lighting International Pty Ltd [2014] FWC 7653 (requirement to relocate was unacceptable); Richards Mining Services Pty Ltd v Dunkerley [2013] FWC 4022 (redundancy reduced to nil despite considerable additional travel by begin required to visit other sites); Cleandomain Pty Ltd [2014] FWC 5243 (reduction to nil and the basis of Applicant's: reluctance to travel more than an additional 30 minutes and to change hours of work).
(#P148_14397) one of the other parties who elected not to continue suggested driving time to Moorooka would take up to an hour in poor traffic conditions from her address
(#P149_14632) Travel time to Victoria Point and Coorparoo is somewhat longer, but both were offered employment at Moorooka as well, and that is the appropriate workplace to use
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