Mr Robert Maat has been refused permission to appeal against a decision made by Commissioner Cribb given on 23 November 2016 concerning his application for relief from unfair dismissal from employment he held with WCH Services Pty Ltd. In the hearing for permission to appeal, Mr Maat appeared with Mr Whelan, a friend, and there was no appearance on behalf of WCH Services. His employment with WCH Services was as a Shopping Trolley Collector, and dated from late 2014. “Mr Maat advances little in the way of submission to the Full Bench in relation to whether it is in the public interest to grant permission to appeal. His contentions in that regard are limited to the proposition that the Commissioner erred in law by finding that Mr Maat was redundant, notwithstanding that WCH Services continued to operate after his dismissal. Such a finding was not part of the Commissioner’s reasoning. Instead, she found that, notwithstanding Mr Maat’s dismissal for reason of a loss of a contract by WCH Services, his dismissal was not a case of genuine redundancy. The notice of appeal does not otherwise raise any issue of general application or importance,” ruled the Full Bench.
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