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An employer had solid reasons for finding a manager's behaviour posed psychosocial safety risks, and for expecting senior leaders to have greater awareness of their conduct obligations, a commission has found.

Accepting there was "clear information" from staff about the manager's conduct, and in light of its psychosocial safety obligations, Queensland Industrial Relations Commissioner Jacqueline Power also found it was open to the employer to extend her suspension.

The Queensland Health manager was employed as the director of speech pathology and audiology at the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service.

In October 2022, she was suspended on full pay after a staff survey highlighted "toxic red flags" in her team's culture and leadership.

The employer subsequently commissioned a culture review into the manager's department, which recorded numerous complaints about her conduct, and handed down a final report in October 2023...