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An employee has failed to prove his employer and two HR managers tried to pressure him into an "unreasonable" on-call roster, and then unlawfully sacked him after he refused.

Federal Circuit Court Judge Doug Humphreys found the employer was within its rights to roster the employee for out-of-hours on-call work, and rejected that the arrangement would have required him to perform unreasonable hours.

Computer software manufacturer DSMJ sacked the lead systems engineer in January last year for failing to comply with its lawful and reasonable directions...