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The "patchwork" of employment histories relevant to an underpayments claim should most likely be collated and made sense of by AI tools, a Federal Court judge has said, in directing the parties to agree on and propose a protocol for the task.

"This is precisely the sort of problem which requires some imagination in contemporary case management," Justice Michael Lee said.

"Complex litigation will only become manageable if case management is prepared to be inventive about how vast quantities of information are reduced to the material which actually matters."

The case itself is a class action, alleging that McDonald's stores failed to pay managers for work they performed before and after their rostered shift times...