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An employer has defended sacking an absent employee after an independent medical assessment found "malignant resentment" prevented her from ever being fit to return.

The BHP Operations Services technical maintenance specialist, who had been on leave since March last year, was dismissed in January for being permanently unfit to perform her role, or any other position within the organisation.

The employee claimed unfair dismissal, arguing the employer chose to terminate her employment rather than address her "serious complaints" about colleagues...