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HR's consultation failure turned redundancy into unfair dismissal
Despite accepting that a supervisor's suitability for redeployment was "unlikely", the Fair Work Commission has found an HR practitioner should have discussed available jobs before dismissing her on the basis of redundancy.
Doing so would have "greatly assisted" the consultation process, specifically regarding measures the employer could have taken to avoid or reduce the adverse effects of its proposed changes, Commissioner Adam Walkaden found.
The Ceva Logistics (Australia) operations supervisor claimed she was unfairly dismissed in June 2025, but the employer objected on the basis her redundancy was genuine.
The Commission heard that earlier in the year, the NSW general manager of operations determined the management structure at the supervisor's warehouse was "inflated" and reducing its profitability...
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