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Alex Mitchell

DARK SECRETS: Banks on notice after ruling backs work from home right | Rare Historical Photos

Bank bosses are being warned to check their work-from-home policies after a Fair Work ruling. (David Mariuz/AAP PHOTOS)

Banks are insisting not all work-from-home requests are possible after one wrongly denied the ask of a mother seeking to care for her children.

The Fair Work Commission in late October found Westpac acted unlawfully in knocking back the woman's request to work from home, a move the sector's union said highlighted that flexible arrangements were a legal right.

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