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The Fair Work Commission has berated an employee, who continued to use AI tools to prepare his general protections claim after being warned his submissions were "incoherent" and misleading.

The employee "repeatedly displayed a disregard for facts and has relied on incoherent legal arguments in order to contrive a basis to claim compensation", Deputy President Nicholas Lake said, adding that he would "welcome" a costs application from the employer.

The employee had lodged a general protections dismissal claim, arguing his employer forced him to quit when it assigned him labouring duties.

He viewed these duties as a demotion, he said, and contended it was a retaliatory move after he refused to consent to "unreasonable" additional working hours.

The employer raised a jurisdictional objection, arguing the employee wasn't sacked but had resigned voluntarily, and that in any case it was entitled under his contract to assign him different duties from time to time...