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Employers must communicate changes in safety expectations, FWC rules after fatigue and phone sacking

A worker who was sacked for regularly beaching fatigue management laws, and accused of having a "cavalier" approach to safety, was unfairly dismissed, a commission has ruled, after hearing his employer's previous owner threatened to terminate his position if he refused to drive longer than the legal 12-hour limit.

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