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A redeployment offer was "clearly a demotion" for an employee, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting an employer's bid to reduce her 13-week redundancy entitlement.

The Sales Link Australasia employee was hired as a full-time team leader, earning $95k per annum, in 2015.

Earlier this year the employer, which operates a grocery merchandising business, implemented a centralised help desk to coordinate field operations, rendering all team leader roles redundant.

Most team leaders were offered internal redeployment, but when the employer identified two alternative roles for the employee, she refused both...