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On/off worker an employee: IRC
In a decision that opens the door wider for long-term casuals to be treated as employees, the IRC has ruled that a casual who rang his employer every day for 20 months - often finding no work the next day - was an employee under the Workplace Relations Act's unfair dismissal provisions.
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