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Claim laundry allowance an inadvertent error doesn't wash, says Bench

A tribunal member erred when he concluded that an "ambiguous" laundry allowance that went unclaimed by employees and the union for more than 16 years was not an entitlement under the enterprise agreement, an FWC full bench has found.

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