Judge says it would likely not be ‘tolerable’ for pair to work together until the beginning of Fair Work dismissal case
Sally Rugg has failed in her bid to keep her job as a staffer for independent MP Monique Ryan pending the full trial ofThe federal court’s Justice Debra Mortimer dismissed Rugg’s application to prevent the commonwealth giving effect to the termination of her employment, meaning she ceased being employed on Tuesday morning.
Ryan has denied directing or requiring Rugg to work 70-hour weeks, and she and the commonwealth also deny that they engaged in “adverse action” in breach of the Fair Work Act. “Even on the most favourable view of Ms Rugg’s submissions about how responsibly they might each try to behave, I do not consider the situation is likely to be tolerable, let alone productive and workable, for either of them,” the judge said.That was because Rugg appeared to be suggesting she could “set her own boundaries about what work she would do and how much work she considered reasonable”, the judge said.
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