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An employer has been blocked from sacking a worker who it believed lied during her job interview, because it was unclear whether it followed a procedurally fair disciplinary process.

Last month, the employee sought urgent interlocutory relief restraining the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, and its capability and employment branch head, from dismissing her, pending the finalisation of her adverse action and enterprise agreement breach claims.

She claimed the employer was proposing to dismiss her because she had made complaints and enquiries about her employment, and that it rushed the disciplinary process because she wore a veil in accordance with her Muslim faith.

Further, the process didn't comply with the relevant enterprise agreement, she argued...