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It was "disingenuous" of an employer to claim it didn't dismiss a casual worker, after it removed her from an assignment due to misconduct allegations, then made no attempt to give her further shifts, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

There was no reasonable basis upon which Adecco could argue the worker remained employed and had not been dismissed, Deputy President Judith Wright said in dismissing its objection to facing her general protections claim.

Adecco employed the casual and on-hired her to work at Amazon's Kemps Creek site, for about nine months until August 2023.

In June 2023, Amazon's HR team contacted Adecco's on-site HR representative to inform her of misconduct allegations made against the worker by Amazon employees. The allegations included that the worker stared at another employee in an intimidating manner and laughed in her face, and made inappropriate comments...