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The events an employee claimed were discrimination weren't linked to her autism and ADHD, but rather resulted from managers' understandable concerns about her performance and behaviour, a tribunal has ruled.

Acknowledging that certain aspects of her employment could have been handled better, Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Senior Member Samuel Thompson nonetheless found that in "difficult and trying circumstances", the employee's managers acted "professionally, fairly, empathetically, and without discrimination".

The employee wasn't "deliberately difficult or intransigent", he said, while noting "with the greatest respect" that neither did it appear she was "easy" to manage.

The Department of Health clinical nurse consultant claimed the employer and a nursing director discriminated against her because of her disability; namely her diagnoses of autism, ADHD, anxiety and an adjustment disorder...