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A worker has failed to prove he was entitled to employee benefits for the seven years he performed duties for an organisation, after the Federal Circuit Court found the parties' arrangements indicated he was a contractor.

In 2012, Caelli Constructions offered the worker a full-time role as a formwork supervisor. He accepted and remained in the position until Caelli terminated the arrangement in mid-2020.

Before Judge Alister McNab, the worker claimed he was entitled to employee benefits including redundancy pay, superannuation, and annual and long-service leave on the termination of his employment.

But the employer said the worker was at all times a "permanent contractor" supplying services to it on behalf of a company called Pruessner Holdings...