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After its workplace training was described as a "tick and flick" exercise, an employer has been ordered to compensate a worker who engaged in "totally unacceptable" behaviour.

The employee, who worked as a truck driver for Phosphate Resources Limited, was sacked earlier this year for serious misconduct.

Specifically, the employer found he had breached four of its policies when he sexually harassed and bullied a coworker by repeatedly saying he was "sucking the boss", then humiliated and intimidated the coworker after he made a formal complaint.

In unfair dismissal proceedings that concluded last month, Fair Work Commission Deputy President Peter O'Keeffe found the employee's dick-sucking comment, "while reprehensible", didn't warrant termination...