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Refusing unlawful directions not exercising workplace right: Court
An employee sacked for refusing to carry out directions he claimed would put him in breach of state law has lost his adverse action case, with a court ruling that while he was entitled to refuse to perform the work, he was not exercising a workplace right.
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