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After falsifying timesheets and providing a "wholly unconvincing" explanation for them, an employee was ill advised to persist with his unfair dismissal claim, the Fair Work Commission has noted.

The employee's suggestion that his manager's approval of his timesheets exonerated him, or that his timesheets had been consistent for years, did "not take the matter very far when the key allegation here is that the entries he made were false", Commissioner Trevor Clarke said.

The database manager had worked in IT for Hansen Corporation since 2019, and was summarily dismissed in May last year for serious misconduct.

At the time, he said he accepted the employer's allegations of misrepresenting his hours worked and failing to fulfil his contracted hours.

In unfair dismissal proceedings, however, the employee claimed he had done nothing wrong, "other than perhaps not provide sufficient detail" on his timesheets...