{"id":222190,"date":"2025-10-24T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222190\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:10:09","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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222190\/","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":222191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,1371,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-222190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-jobs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}