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A supervisor whose communication was "frequent and interrogative" possibly needed more support to manage remote staff, but his behaviour wasn't bullying, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Commissioner Oanh Thi Tran noted it was "unfortunate" the employee, who said he liked his employer and his job, had ended up on leave for more than six months after making a stop-bullying claim against his team leader and an HR manager.

While she ultimately found the employee hadn't been bullied, she said the employer would need to undertake mediation to address relationship breakdowns before he could return to work.

The IT support agent for The Trustee for UBT Marketing Trust, which provides IT services to community organisations, sought stop-bullying orders in September last year, but the employer, the team leader and the HR manager all maintained they had acted reasonably...