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An employer has unsuccessfully tried to block a s-xual harassment dispute, arguing it had no utility because it was lodged by a former employee it would "never" hire again, and who had also filed a claim in the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Sentinel Community Services sought that the matter be dismissed on three grounds, but Deputy President Tony Slevin refused, finding none of its arguments were made out.

He heard the employee was hired as a support worker in November 2023, and from that time until she was dismissed in June 2025, she was involved in ongoing disputation with multiple internal disciplinary actions, complaints, and investigations.

In December 2025, the employee filed an application under section 527F of the Fair Work Act asserting that four of her former colleagues sexually harassed her, and that the employer was vicariously liable for their contravention of the prohibition on such behaviour in the workplace...