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Refusing to offer anti-vaxxer placements wasn't a dismissal

An on-hire employee who wouldn't consent to being "stabbed" with "poison" has failed to prove Randstad dismissed her when it refused to offer her placements.

The worker applied to the Fair Work Commission to deal with a general protections dispute involving her dismissal in December last year, but Randstad objected on jurisdictional grounds, denying it sacked her.

Randstad told the Commission it employed the worker in October 2019 as a casual outside-school-hours care assistant. It offered her about 100 shifts to work between then and 25 November; the worker accepted five.

Following the Queensland Government's mandatory COVID-19 vaccination direction for workers in high-risk settings, Randstad sought confirmation of the worker's vaccination status, but she responded that she hadn't seen the direction and would keep her status private...