Fashion designer Alex Perry has been falsely accused by a former employee in an unfair dismissal case, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A pattern maker and machinist formerly employed by the Greek Australian in Sydney, accused the designer of making sexist comments and claimed that he had been unfairly sacked for swearing and using threatening language.

However the Fair Work Commission has rejected the unfair dismissal application, in which the 48-year-old machinist claimed that “swearing and banter was commonplace in the office”, reported The Sydney Morning Herald.

The former employee was let go in September, 2018 for threatening and aggressive behaviour towards female co-workers. The commission heard that when a 65-year-old female colleague had negatively commented on his workmanship, that he replied saying “I’ll f— you up the arse”.

In addition, when he was questioned about his workmanship, the worker allegedly became aggressive, “jabbing his finger” at a colleague and shouting, allegedly even threatening to “f—ing slap” a female co-worker.

Aside from claiming unfair dismissal, the machinist said that Mr Perry had called a colleague a “bitch” whom he would “get rid of” and that “some women need a slapping from time to time”.

However the commission accepted Mr Perry’s denial of the claims, and rejected the evidence as untrue.

Mr Perry had expressed that he was concerned with the machinist’s behaviour, as it was not the first time he had behaved aggressively and threatened female co-workers, and had said “sometimes women just need a slap”.

The commission’s deputy president Peter Sams ruled that the former employee’s dismissal had not been unfair, harsh, unjust or unreasonable.

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