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An employer's "blanket rule" not to tolerate violence in any circumstances was not "valid, fair, or practicable", the Fair Work Commission has ruled, in finding an employee was unfairly sacked after a physical altercation.

Deputy President Gerard Boyce said the employer failed to consider the "totality of the circumstances" surrounding the incident, and ordered it to reinstate the long-serving employee.

The NSW TrainLink intercity train driver had been on his way to work in July last year, when a member of the public at Bankstown Railway Station tried to trip him from behind...