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An employer has lost its jurisdictional objection to a manager's unfair dismissal claim, but his "belittling and insulting" behaviour gave it a valid reason to sack him, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Mining company Centrex Limited had objected to the commercial manager's unfair dismissal application on the basis that he voluntarily resigned.

Deputy President Terri Butler heard that in June this year, the manager emailed a head chef to criticise him for failing to cc him into certain emails and copied in the general manager...