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An employer has been fined $25k for taking adverse action against an employee who complained about a superior, with the court noting its contravention was "serious".

The case involved a learning and development lead, who claimed Serco Citizen Services sacked him because he'd made workplace complaints.

In a decision handed down in July, Federal Court Justice Darryl Rangiah accepted that the operations director "at every step" viewed the L&D lead's actions "in the worst possible light" after he complained that she denied him procedural fairness during an earlier workplace investigation.

When she subsequently sacked the L&D lead, Justice Rangiah said the operations director's findings were "so lacking in objectivity and plausibility as to indicate they are not genuinely her reasons for those findings"...