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Adjusting an employee's roster to accommodate her caring responsibilities wouldn't have imposed a significant burden on an employer, and its refusal amounted to discrimination, a tribunal has ruled.

The requested changes were "entirely achievable" and would have had a "zero to negligible effect" on the employer, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Member Ian Scott found.

The employee, who worked as a responsible service of alcohol officer (RSAO) at Crown Melbourne Limited, claimed the employer breached section 19(1) of the State Equal Opportunity Act when it unreasonably refused to accommodate her responsibilities as a carer...