Fair Work Commission’s 53,666 lodgments: what the numbers show, and do not show, about AI and dismissal claims - https://onnotice.com.au/
Read Full Article on https://onnotice.com.au/Summary
Australia's Fair Work Commission received a record 53,666 lodgments in 2025-26, with supported wage system agreements (used for disabled workers) comprising 18% of the caseload at 9,507 applications. The Commission's research found that approximately 40% of dismissal applicants used generative AI to prepare their cases, though the research cannot definitively quantify how many lodgments were driven by AI use.
Key Points
The Fair Work Commission received 53,666 lodgments in 2025-26, a workload its annual report calls “unprecedented”. OnNotice has already reported [the annual report’s headline figures and the President’s account of them](https://onnotice.com.au/news/53-666-lodgments-up-22-per-cent-as-president-points-to-ai/). The figures come from the Commission’s lodgments tables for 2022-23, 2024-25 and 2025-26, …
This article was originally published by https://onnotice.com.au/.
Read Full Article