Organic coffee drinker needs longer breaks

The Canberra Times reports:

A Canberra public servant told her boss she needed longer breaks than her colleagues, saying she had to find a café that served organic coffee with soy milk.

When the Australian Taxation Office bureaucrat was warned about her absences from her desk and told she had to adhere to time management requirements, she took her case to the Commonwealth government’s workplace authority.

After the appeal was dismissed, the Executive Level 1 public servant went on stress leave and claimed workers compensation, arguing that her ATO supervisor’s approach left her with “adjustment disorder”.

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has dismissed the worker’s appeal against the decision to reject the claim, finding the Taxation Office was reasonable in its dealings with the public servant.

Amazing it got that far.

Also fascinated by the claim that being unable to get organic coffee with soy milk led to an adjustment disorder!