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An employer has defended rejecting an employee's request to work from home one day a week, arguing it was "not sustainable" for colleagues to take on his duties when he wasn't there.

The Queensland Police Service denied the prosecutor's flexible working arrangement (FWA) application early last year, but agreed to let him work from home one day each month.

In July, the employer rejected his second FWA application, on the basis there was "simply no meaningful work" he could perform from home one day a week.

It also mentioned it had received feedback about the work he had completed at home, which was "very basic", contained "many spelling and grammatical errors", and required "significant value adding to be ready for presentation in court"...