A three-year regular casual lost her shifts after asking to be paid properly
A casual worker asked to be paid for setup time, then her employer removed her from the roster. Fair Work called it a dismissal.
Jessie Perrin worked as a casual group fitness instructor for Yarra City Council from 19 April 2021. From around March 2022, she taught two aqua classes every Friday morning at the Collingwood Leisure Centre on a regular two-hour shift from 8.15am to 10.15am.
The council required Perrin to be on the pool deck at 8.15am, ready to start her first class, and accepted this meant she needed to arrive early to set up. Under the Yarra City Council Enterprise Agreement 2021-2025, instructors on shifts of two hours or more were entitled to 15 minutes of paid setup and pack-up time. The rostering system, however, could not accommodate a start time before 8.15am. Perrin accepted in evidence that she understood these arrangements.
On 5 September 2025, she emailed her manager, Adam Horton, making clear she would arrive for her scheduled 8.15am start, and that if the council wanted her on site before 8.15am for setup, it would need to adjust her timesheet to accurately reflect the time she was expected to be on site and working.
That same day, between classes at 9.05am, she sent a further email to Horton reiterating the same point.
The email to Horton included the following: "If you'd like me to start work before 8.15am could you please make the adjustments on my timesheet to...
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