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Contractors Give Way? Redundancies and your redeployment obligations

29 Aug 2025

The High Court has unanimously found that when considering whether it would be ‘reasonable in all the circumstances’ to redeploy an employee in the circumstances of a redundancy, it is permissible for the Fair Work Commission to consider whether it would have been reasonable to redeploy those employees to perform work being performed by contractors.

Authors:

Ben Motro, Partner
Email: bmotro@piperalderman.com.au

John Evans, Special Counsel
Email: jdevans@piperalderman.com.au