{"id":4512,"date":"2025-07-18T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4512\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:00:14","slug":"fair-work-slaps-down-australian-dads-work-from-home-request-to-help-care-for-school-aged-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4512\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Work slaps down Australian dad\u2019s work-from-home request to help care for school-aged kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The working dad wanted to keep his arrangement of working-from-home twice a week to help look after his children. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

An Australian dad who tried to get his employer to let him work from home twice a week, to help care for his school-age children, has had his request denied.<\/p>\n

\n The dad took his legal bid to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) after attempts to reach a compromise with his
\n employer failed.\n <\/p>\n

Paul Collins, a technical specialist at global software company Intersystems Australia, sought the ability to work from home two days a week in order to help care for his school-aged children, aged 8 and 10. His application, filed in January, also said mentioned he needed better \u201cwork-life balance\u201d. His bid has not been successful. <\/p>\n

His employer, Intersystems, operates an online record system in Australia known as TrakCare, used by healthcare providers to allow the sharing of health information between facilities and organisations.<\/p>\n

The employee had previous been working remotely two days a week in late 2024, under a hybrid working model the company had adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 17 Jul, 2025 08:50 PM3 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5136,45,49,48,5375,2770,5371,5382,5370,5379,5367,693,3011,5374,2151,124,5377,5373,5381,5376,5369,696,5378,5380,2813,5368,5372],"class_list":["post-4512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-australian","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-care","tag-children","tag-dads","tag-denied","tag-down","tag-employer","tag-fair","tag-for","tag-from","tag-help","tag-home","tag-jobs","tag-kids","tag-request","tag-schoolage","tag-schoolaged","tag-slaps","tag-to","tag-tried","tag-twice","tag-week","tag-work","tag-workfromhome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}