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Flexibility denied: IT worker's 4-day week bid refused in FWC arbitration

In a ruling that suggests there might be a role for arbitration of flexible hours' requests under enterprise agreements, the FWC has rejected an IT administrator's bid to move to a four-day working week to care for his disabled mother and mother-in-law, finding that the cost to his employer would outweigh the benefits to him.