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An employee who claimed she was "blindsided" by the end of her time-limited contract has been cleared to claim unfair dismissal, with the Fair Work Commission criticising her employer for its "misleading conduct".

Gladstone Ports Corporation objected to facing the employee's unfair dismissal claim on the basis the employment relationship came to an end due to the exhaustion of her contract.

The Commission heard she was employed in September 2013 as the employer's company secretary, but later began performing duties as a deputy company secretary, which became her substantive role...