NSW Employee then 6 month contract - Is employer bound by NES?

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If a part-time or casual worker has been working for 12 months with a company and agrees to a 6 month contract with verbal assurances that there would be a role at the end of the contract but is then terminated without warning, notice, cause, opportunity to respond to termination after only a short period into the 6 month contract, can the employer still argue that NES provisions don't apply to 6 month contracts?
 

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Generally speaking NES applies to most Aussie workers and there are differences between part-timers and casuals. Part-timers have more rights than casuals.

Were you casual or part-time? And under which award?