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An employee who admitted to sexually harassing a junior colleague has failed to overturn his dismissal, despite a commission finding his employer's four-year delay in taking disciplinary action was unreasonable.

In May last year, the NSW Police senior constable was removed from his position for engaging in "highly inappropriate and unacceptable conduct" towards a probationary constable several years earlier.

The employee subsequently applied to the NSW Industrial Relations Commission to revoke the employer's decision, claiming it was harsh, unreasonable or unjust...