WESTERN AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION PARTIES THE CIVIL SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA INCORPORATED APPELLANT -and- Commissioner of Police, WA Police Service RESPONDENT CORAM FULL BENCH The Honourable J H Smith, Acting President Chief Commissioner P E Scott Commissioner D J Matthews DATE WEDNESDay, 30 January 2019 FILE NO/S FBA 7 OF 2018 CITATION NO. 2019 WAIRC 00021 Result Appeal upheld; decision of Public Service Arbitrator varied Appearances Appellant Mr B Cusack and with him Ms D Larson Respondent Mr D Anderson, of counsel Order This appeal having come on for hearing before the Full Bench on 17 December 2018, and having heard Mr B Cusack and with him Ms D Larson on behalf of the appellant, and Mr D Anderson, of counsel, on behalf of the respondent, and reasons for decision having been delivered on 29 January 2019, the Full Bench, pursuant to the powers conferred on it under the Industrial Relations Act 1979, hereby orders that — 1. The appeal is upheld. 2. The decision of the Public Service Arbitrator given on 12 July 2018 in PSACR 5 of 2018 is varied by deleting the words 'THAT the application be and is hereby dismissed' and substituting the following order: THAT the direction given to Ms Tara-Jayne Richardson on 22 December 2017 to be absent from duty (in respect of the period from 22 December 2017 to 31 January 2018) be treated as, and recorded as, paid time (as if Ms Richardson had not been directed to not attend work in that period). By the Full Bench ACTING PRESIDENT