Ms Wendy Gray:

I thank the Deputy. As Mr. Mulligan said, it is one of the issues we are looking at. It will be the reasonableness of why it was declined. One of the issues we had looked at is the scenario where potentially an employee might say he or she would like to work from Spain or another jurisdiction. This is the reason distance is included. It is not for the local area that an employer would refuse. Absolutely the reasonableness of the refusal would definitely be something that we will look at in terms of being able to appeal it as would whether the WRC would be able to adjudicate on it. It is really with regard to another jurisdiction. Because it is so popular we may have people saying they would like to work from a beach in Spain. This is the distance issue and this is why some of the issues are in there. We are taking advice on the reasonableness of these issues and whether an adjudicator can look at them and say it is absolutely not reasonable. This is something we want to work on.