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An employee accused of making a female colleague feel uncomfortable has lost his psychological injury appeal, after a court found management's response to the complaint was "unremarkable" and reasonable in the circumstances.

In late 2018, the St Martin's Catholic Primary School groundsman was directed not to approach or speak to a female teacher unless in an emergency, after she complained that he had inappropriately complimented her.

Nine months later, the female colleague again complained the employee had made her feel uncomfortable when he watched her for several minutes and, on another occasion, spoke in "his French voice" to other staff, as he had allegedly done to her the year before...