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An employee who didn't raise any complaints about his performance improvement plan while it was underway has lost his unfair dismissal claim.

"If he had a concern about the reasonableness of the expectations, he could and should have raised it," Fair Work Commission Deputy President Alan Colman said.

The former restaurant manager for Florentino in Melbourne claimed he was subjected to an unfair PIP, and that his resulting dismissal in June this year was harsh, unjust and unreasonable.

His various complaints included that he was placed on a PIP, based on criticisms that he didn't accept, and that the areas it aimed to address were "petty"...