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It was unfair to move a longstanding senior leader into a non-managerial role, despite complaints he had denied one employee procedural fairness and made inappropriate comments to another, a commission has ruled.

In January this year, the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service reprimanded the director of anaesthetics and proposed redeploying him into a clinical but non-managerial role, without a reduction in pay, after it substantiated two complaints against him.

The director, who had held his position since 1993, appealed the decision in the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission, arguing redeployment was "disproportionate to the wrongdoing found to have occurred".

The Commission heard the first complaint related to the director's actions against an employee who was accused of bullying and misusing his rostering responsibilities...