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Annual leave claim rejected for high-paid, on-hire FIFO workers

A commission has rejected a claim for accrued annual leave from a group of on-hire oil and gas workers, in a case with wider ramifications for fly-in-fly-out employees on rotating rosters.

The workers worked on the "even time" roster of three weeks on with 12-hour days and then three weeks off, which is common for remote worksites in the resources sector.

The Australian Workers Union made a claim on behalf of a group of workers who were employed by specialist oil and gas industry labour hire company, Oil and Gas Repair Australia (OGR), and on-hired to Inpex's Ichthys LNG project...