The ABC said nothing had changed. Its own contract system told a different story
A long-serving ABC casual returned from a family trip to deleted accounts and no shifts. The Fair Work Commission called that a dismissal.
In a decision issued on August 7, 2026, the Commission found that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation dismissed a casual employee on February 5, 2026, and rejected the broadcaster's two objections to his unfair dismissal application. The Commission has not yet decided whether the dismissal was unfair. That question now goes to conciliation.
The worker had been engaged by the ABC on a casual basis since July 15, 2019, working as a presenter, reporter and producer on ABC NewsRadio until December 14, 2025. He was a casual on paper, but the pattern told a different story. The Commission found he completed 154 shifts between November 25, 2024 and December 14, 2025, was rostered weeks or months in advance, and earned over $80,000 gross through his casual employment in the 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years. His former NewsRadio manager gave uncontested evidence that he had worked on an ongoing, regular and highly systematic basis for around six years.
He was unavailable from December 15, 2025 to mid-January 2026, travelling to the United Kingdom with his family to visit his elderly parents. He gave the ABC notice of the trip. The Commission recorded that the ABC raised no concerns about the period of unavailability.
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