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An employer didn't dismiss an HR administrator when it told her to stop referring to herself as an HR manager, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting this was a "demotion" that breached her employment contract.

Late last year, the Diamond Valley Pork HR administrator applied to the Commission to deal with a general protections dispute involving dismissal, but the employer objected on the basis it hadn't sacked her.

The HR administrator converted from temporary to permanent employment with the organisation in mid-2021, but she said that about five months later her title changed to HR manager...