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A labour hire company that wasn't informed a host had ended its employee's assignment has successfully argued it doesn't have to face her general protections claim.

The Flexy Services Pty Ltd casual employee was on-hired to Rio Tinto in June 2022 on an assignment scheduled to end a year later. Her assignment was then extended to end in June 2024, but three months short of that date Rio Tinto told her she was no longer required to perform work for the company.

Shortly after, she claimed she had been dismissed in breach of the Fair Work Act's general protections provisions, naming Flexy as the respondent...