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Westpac gave an employee ample warning that she might not receive any redundancy pay if she didn't take up the "identical" role it offered her, the Fair Work Commission has found, in reducing her entitlement from $11,245 to zero.

Westpac sought an exemption from paying the senior customer service specialist her seven weeks' redundancy pay, on the basis that it had obtained other acceptable employment for her under section 120 of the Fair Work Act, even though she had turned down the role...