Employees who refused WFH jobs get cut in redundancy payout
Employees retrenched from a financial services firm have had their redundancy payouts cut because they refused to accept a similar role that required them to work entirely from home.
Bartercard this month got Fair Work Commission orders to reduce the payouts of five long-serving business development managers, who had argued that permanently working from home was unsuitable due to the lack of separate working space, the effect on mental health and the cost of setting up a workspace.
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