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Due to its "misconceived" notion of casual employment rights, an employer now has to face a worker's general protections claim.

The casual employee of B&R Recruitment Group Pty Ltd, who was performing work at an Australian Agribusiness site, was told in July that his services were no longer required.

He lodged a general protections claim involving dismissal, to which the employer objected on the grounds it hadn't dismissed him.

Commissioner Nicholas Wilson noted that the employer's objection, "succinctly stated", was that because the worker was a casual employee, his "employment could be finished up at any time"...