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What are 'reasonable' hours? The Ryan-Rugg legal stoush may help the rest of us know

  • Written by: Giuseppe Carabetta, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
What are 'reasonable' hours? The Ryan-Rugg legal stoush may help the rest of us knowJoel Carrett/AAP

The court case against federal independent parliamentarian Monique Ryan by her former chief of staff Sally Rugg will, according to Rugg’s lawyers, open the door to legal action “by every Australian worker experiencing exploitation because of a contractual obligation to perform undefined ‘reasonable...

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