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Despite an employee's efforts to cast an email he sent in a different light, a commission has found it wasn't about "wishing everyone a happy new year" but rather was "extremely inappropriate" and warranted his dismissal.

The email was a clear breach of the employer's code of conduct, Western Australian Industrial Relations Commissioner Toni Emmanuel said, noting it was "full of bare assertations of serious wrongdoing and obviously has the potential to be distressing and damaging".

The East Metropolitan Health Service sacked the handyman in June last year, after it found he'd committed a breach of discipline when he sent an email containing "serious, untested" allegations against a number of managers.

The employee didn't deny sending the email, but he disputed that it amounted to misconduct...