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A "rude" employee could have provoked "a much more robust" response from managers, but instead they remained calm, considerate and professional, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in stop-bullying proceedings.

Evidence showed the employee had unreasonable expectations of his superiors, Deputy President Lyndall Dean said, finding his allegations were "unfounded and unfair".

The Australian Digital Health Agency employee sought stop-bullying orders against 11 individual staff members, including three HR professionals.

The Commission heard that in September last year, he emailed HR about a supervisor, to whom he'd been reporting for about three weeks. He complained about her: "constant" nitpicking; unnecessary check-ins; unreasonable demands; threatening behaviour; rude communication; lack of professionalism; and "unhelpful criticism", among other things...