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An HR business partner's "damning assessment of morale and employee relations" in a senior manager's team was the final straw that prompted his dismissal, the Federal Court has found in redetermining a long-running adverse action case.

The employer also had other "perfectly lawful" reasons to sack the senior manager, including his poor performance, Justice Shaun McElwaine found, in rejecting his dismissal was for prohibited reasons.

The TechnologyOne Victorian regional manager had claimed his "brutal" summary dismissal in May 2016 was motivated by his workplace bullying complaints and was therefore unlawful.

In October 2020, Federal Court Justice Duncan Kerr found in the manager's favour...