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An employer could have prevented a long-serving employee's suicide if it followed its own disciplinary procedure and considered alternatives to dismissal, a coroner's court has found.

Victorian Coroner Audrey Jamieson said the Oceania Glass HR manager's "disproportionate" response to the employee's intoxication at work was inconsistent with the relevant enterprise agreement, which emphasised a "rehabilitative and health-based approach to alcohol misuse".

Oceania Glass assistant team leader Anuruddha Bandara Abeysinghe died by suicide in July 2020, the day after he was sacked for being under the influence of alcohol while working...