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An employer must again defend dismissing a worker who said she would "take down" the company, after she won an appeal but then lost a dispute over what form the rehearing should take.

Randstad sacked the employee in August 2018 for breaching its social media policy, after she advertised her own role on LinkedIn and then ignored her supervisor's direction to remove it.

She subsequently made a general protections application, claiming the real reason for her dismissal was because she'd made bullying complaints and/or because she had bipolar disorder...