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Can Redundancy Pay Be Reduced? What “Other Acceptable Employment” Really Means Under Section 120

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Most employers know that a genuine redundancy triggers redundancy pay. Far fewer know that the Fair Work Commission can reduce that payment — sometimes to nothing — where the employer has obtained other acceptable employment for the employee.  And far fewer still appreciate the sting in the test: whether the alternative employment is “acceptable” is judged objectively. It does

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Reasonable Redeployment in Genuine Redundancy: Why “No Vacancies” Is No Longer Enough After the High Court’s Helensburgh Decision

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When you make a role redundant, can you rely on the fact that there were simply no other jobs going? Not any more.  Following the High Court’s 2025 decision in the Helensburgh Coal matter, “reasonable redeployment” under section 389 of the Fair Work Act now reaches beyond a list of vacant positions — in some cases it extends

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