Source: Unsplash/Mick Orlick. Employers have long known they are obliged to try to find new employment opportunities for employees who are faced with the redundancy of their current role. This might include redeployment within the business or its related companies, or finding employment with a third party. Despite employers’ best efforts to preserve employment, from time to time, disputes arise when employees would rather have redundancy pay than a new role, or where the new role is not an adequate substitute for the old one. In the recent case of ASG Maintenance Pty Ltd v Lord [2020] FWC 5894, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) was required to consider an application from an employer under s120 of the