{"id":142324,"date":"2025-10-24T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142324\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:24:07","slug":"fair-work-commission-warns-unlawful-dismissal-claims-are-surging-and-the-actus-sally-mcmanus-says-ai-is-making-it-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142324\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Work Commission warns unlawful dismissal claims are surging and the ACTU\u2019s Sally McManus says AI is making it worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employers have called for major fixes to unlawful dismissal laws to hold back a massive surge in claims, which the head of the workplace tribunal has warned are largely meritless applications trying to leverage payouts from bosses.<\/p>\n<p>Fair Work Commission president Justice Adam Hatcher has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/work-and-careers\/workplace\/unfair-dismissal-claims-lead-surge-that-is-swamping-the-system-20251022-p5n4gg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">publicly raised concerns<\/a> about the extraordinary rise in claims, particularly regarding dismissals, that are on track to surpass 50,000 for this financial year \u2013 the third consecutive record high in three years.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employers have called for major fixes to unlawful dismissal laws to hold back a massive surge in claims,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[79,18,19,17,227],"class_list":{"0":"post-142324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jobs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115428187613050044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}