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An employee has failed to prove that she should have been redeployed into one of several available roles in her employer's associated entities when it was deciding whether to make her role redundant.

In August last year, due to its reduced financial position and uncertain future, UQ Sport's HR manager told the project coordinator, who was on parental leave at the time, that the employer was considering making her role redundant.

The HR manager said he could redeploy the employee into a full-time customer service role or part-time shift supervisor role, but the employee said these were unsuitable.

She also said she was unhappy the employer hadn't brought up the potential for redundancy at the start of her parental leave in November 2020...