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An employee's "openly derisive" claim that her employer, in rejecting her flexible work request, confused its operational needs with its inability to manage its own workforce, was a "slap in the face", a commission has chastised.

Queensland Industrial Relations Commissioner John Dwyer said the employer had gone "above and beyond" to accommodate the employee, and found its decision was fair and reasonable.

In May last year, the Office of Industrial Relations asked the Medical Assessment Tribunal (MAT) officer to transition back to working in the office. She had been largely working from home due to maternity leave arrangements and then the pandemic, during which she was considered a 'vulnerable worker'...