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A casual employee who worked every week for more than a year has been blocked from pursuing her unfair dismissal claim, after the Fair Work Commission found her employment wasn't regular and systematic.

Geraldton Fisherman's Co-Operative objected to the casual process attendant's claim on the basis the employee, despite having worked for it for more than a year, hadn't satisfied the minimum employment period.

It said the employee didn't have six months' continuous service as she hadn't been employed on a regular and systematic basis, and that even if she had, she couldn't have had a reasonable expectation of ongoing employment...