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An employer with "unrealistic expectations" of a management role has been ordered to pay maximum compensation to an employee it unfairly dismissed for poor performance.

Engineering and manufacturing business Veem sacked the after-sales and support manager in September last year for failing to fulfil his management responsibilities despite receiving regular feedback from superiors.

In unfair dismissal proceedings, the Commission heard that in August, the manager overheard a "long and heated argument" in the office between the employer's managing director and his brother...