In court documents filed in her case against Monique Ryan, Sally Rugg has directly blamed the PM’s decision to slash crossbench staff numbers for her allegedly unreasonable work hours.
last year for its decision to cut crossbench allocations from four to one parliamentary adviser on top of local electorate office staff, with Ryan saying in an interview withIn the updated claim document, Rugg’s lawyers cite quotes from Ryan following Albanese’s decision: “It’s hard to imagine how we’re going to do everything in this office with one staffer. It was a huge act of bastardry. I felt like I’d been punched in the chest. I was devastated.
She claims in the document the government breached the Fair Work Act section relating to reasonable hours due to “the fact that Dr Ryan required the Chief of Staff role to be filled by someone who was always there for Dr Ryan, and who was across everything that was happening in Dr Ryan’s office”. The amended statement of claim represents a refocusing of Rugg’s claims away from Ryan, who is not accused of “hostile” conduct in the updated filing. Rugg had previously claimed to regularly work 70-hour weeks, but in the fresh document she claims to only have done so on two of her weeks in the office.
She claims her $136,607 salary, plus the $30,205 allowance she received for working longer than usual hours, collectively only covered a combined 46.4 hours a week, and that she wasn’t compensated for the extra hours she worked.Rugg alleges in the document that she told Ryan in a meeting in November, “The bar you have set for me is far too high and if your expectations are impossible to achieve then I have been set up to fail and will never meet them.
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