HR Nicholls has today released a major new report, The Go Away Money Economy: How Australia Turned Unfair Dismissal into a Settlement Industry, exposing how Australia’s unfair dismissal system has become a low-cost, high-volume claims machine that is punishing employers regardless of whether they have done anything wrong.

The report is the first major statistical and economic analysis by an Australian think tank to model the employer cost of unfair dismissal claims over time, quantify the cumulative burden across the past decade, and project claims and costs through to 2030.