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The Federal Court has rejected a senior HR business partner's latest challenge regarding his serious misconduct dismissal, after two Fair Work Commission decisions upheld it as fair.

Neither the primary unfair dismissal ruling nor the full bench's subsequent decision were affected by jurisdictional error, Justice Michael Wheelahan found.

As reported by HR Daily in August last year, FWC Deputy President Ian Masson found Stantec Australia had two valid reasons for sacking the HRBP: he had inappropriately sought to contact a female coworker after she made a sexual harassment complaint against him; and he fabricated a text message from the coworker to himself for the purpose of discrediting her.

The Deputy President acknowledged the HRBP wasn't notified of these reasons prior to his dismissal and therefore didn't have an opportunity to respond, but he found the HRBP's serious misconduct "comfortably outweighed" these procedural failings.

The HRBP sought to appeal, but a full bench refused to grant him permission...