{"id":746307,"date":"2026-06-19T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746307\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:37:09","slug":"fair-work-says-stopping-ai-dismissal-claims-is-an-exercise-in-futility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746307\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Work says stopping AI dismissal claims is an exercise in futility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unprecedented artificial intelligence-driven surge in dismissal claims has blown out the time it takes to resolve cases from less than four weeks to almost seven as the umpire concedes it cannot stop AI affecting its operations.<\/p>\n<p>Fair Work Commission general manager Murray Furlong revealed in a presentation that the commission\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/work-and-careers\/workplace\/we-can-t-continue-dismissal-claims-surge-tips-umpire-into-crisis-20260529-p601yi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">72 per cent increase in case lodgements<\/a> since 2023 was \u201cpotentially unprecedented in the 120-year history of the institution\u201d and was leading to significant delays.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unprecedented artificial intelligence-driven surge in dismissal claims has blown out the time it takes to resolve cases&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-746307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}