A Federal Court judge has looked behind the "stated" or "professed" reasons for a Rio Tinto subsidiary's decision against engaging a fixed-term employee at the end of his initial 12-month contract and ordered it to offer him a permanent job, after uncovering the "actual" reasons, which included his industrial activism and complaints and inquiries about workplace practices.
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