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An Australian employee has just used AI to help win a Fair Work Commission case against Macquarie University.

Greg Baker, a computing academic, represented himself in a casual employment dispute and used multiple paid AI tools, including ChatGPT Pro, to research decisions, test arguments, follow references and prepare his case.

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This story should make every business owner’s blood boil. 1800 lasagne, the Thornbury restaurant that picked up a chef’s hat and a visit from Jamie Oliver, owes its own staff close to $400,000 in unpaid entitlements. Administrators have told those same staff not to expect much of it back. How does this stuff still happen? Welcome to Australia, where corporate greed is often r...

Spoiler alert. Life is meant to be hard. Let’s talk about the junior lawyer who was terminated for a TikTok rant.

Nobody wants to be the person saying “toughen up” to a 24-year-old on the internet. But some of what’s actually being argued in this story deserves pushback, not applause. First things first. Mastering anything is meant to be hard. Becoming a lawyer is a pr...

A hospitality shift app called Supp is under scrutiny after reports that workers picking up bar, floor and event shifts through the platform are being engaged as independent contractors, not employees. Some say they’ve missed out on superannuation as a result.

Supp is a jobs marketplace for hospitalit...

A worker resigns, then claims she was pushed out. It happens more than most business owners think, and it’s a genuine risk if you don’t know where the line sits. A Fair Work Commission decision handed down on 30 July 2026 drew that line clearly, and it’s worth understanding exactly where it fell.

A senior hairdresser resigned from her salon ...