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The "mere risk" that an employee could relapse into alcohol misuse to combat anxiety and stress didn't mean she was unfit to return to work, a commission has ruled in ordering her reinstatement.

The Health Share quality assurance business partner was diagnosed with work-related major depressive disorder in 2015, which incapacitated her.

Three years later, the employer dismissed her on medical grounds, based on her doctors' opinion she would never sufficiently recover to perform the inherent requirements of her role...