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An "adversarial" employee has won stop-bullying orders, while also being subject to orders herself, with the Fair Work Commission finding she was marginalised and ignored after returning from sick leave.

The Peter Warren Group aftermarket sales consultant applied for stop-bullying orders in December last year, six months after returning from a long period of workers' compensation leave related to bullying she experienced at the employer's Narellan site.

She told the Commission that on the day she went back, her personal and work items at her old desk were gone, and no managers were there to meet with her, so she had to get another department to help set up her computer.

Soon after, she discovered her manager had rearranged her email account and deleted some emails and files, including those related to her earlier bullying complaint. Further, the manager had set up a forwarding rule so she would continue to receive copies of the employee's emails...