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An employee who misrepresented when she finished work on 17 occasions in a six-week period engaged in "time fraud" and was fairly sacked, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Verifact Traffic sacked the traffic controller in December 2021 for serious misconduct and she subsequently applied for an unfair dismissal remedy, seeking eight weeks' pay as compensation.

Deputy President Nicholas Lake heard the employer began to monitor the employee's vehicle movements and finishing times in early November, after discovering she had left work 2.5 hours earlier than the time recorded on her docket...