AI is flooding Australia’s employment system, forcing a rethink of how law is practiced
HR under pressure: ‘Do more with less’, but safely
For HR professionals, AI presents a double‑edged sword. On one side, generative tools have fuelled a flood of claims, many of them poorly framed or hopeless. On the other, legal‑grade AI – properly deployed – can help stretched teams cope with rising volumes and complexity.
Stebbing said Commission forecasts of a 70% increase in applications such as unfair dismissal and general protections over the three‑year average should be a wake‑up call.
“If there is this overwhelming increase in employment law claims, it only makes more of a case, in my view, for utilising the legal tech tools that are available to practitioners in the most efficient and productive way,” she explained.
But that must happen inside secure, enterprise‑grade environments – not via ad‑hoc use of public chatbots that may compromise confidentiality and privilege.
“Everyone’s trying to do more with less,” Stebbing noted. The firms and HR teams that will cope best, she argues, will be those who:
