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Job "assistance" didn't exempt recruiter from redundancy pay

Despite assisting its on-hire workers into new jobs when a labour contract transferred to a different supplier, Ready Workforce has failed to prove it should not have to pay them redundancy entitlements.

Ready Workforce (a division of Chandler Macleod), had applied to the Fair Work Commission to reduce the redundancy pay of 12 workers to nil, on the basis that it had obtained other acceptable employment for them, under section 120 of the Fair Work Act.

But the workers, most of whom were represented by the CFMMEU, objected...