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An employee's recent sexual harassment training was evidence of the degree to which he was aware his workplace behaviour was inappropriate, and increased the seriousness of his misconduct, a commission has ruled.

The training was also proof that he "knowingly disregarded his obligation to not sexually harass others", Queensland Industrial Relations Commissioner Daniel Pratt found.

Queensland Health suspended the QEII Jubilee Hospital safety and response officer in May last year, after a colleague alleged he had "initiated unwelcomed or unsolicited physical contact and conversations of a sexual nature" with her a couple of weeks earlier...