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A commissioner has dismissed an employee's "impassioned" but baseless discrimination complaints, noting it was "incredible" that a single incident more than a decade ago had "spawned so many failed legal proceedings and so much personal and professional destruction".

The former youth justice employee with Queensland's Department of Justice and Attorney-General claimed her supervisor and a manager discriminated against her on the basis of her relationship status and mental illness, and she said she was victimised when she was subject to a show-cause process and then sacked.

The State Industrial Relations Commission heard the employee began working for the Department in 2006 and that she formed a relationship with a colleague and subsequently married him...