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It was "highly inappropriate" for an employee to secretly record a meeting about remarks he had made threatening his employer's reputation, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Serco Australia sacked the correctional case officer for serious misconduct in September last year, and he claimed unfair dismissal, alleging there had been a "systemic cover up by all levels of Serco management".

The Commission heard that seven months earlier, the employee was notified that one of the dogs he was training had injured her tail, which ultimately required a partial amputation.

The employee was "extremely upset" by the injury and was dissatisfied with the employer's investigation into how it occurred...