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"Australia's unluckiest job applicant" ordered to pay $44k for "unmeritorious" claims

A failed discrimination claimant described as "Australia's unluckiest job applicant" has been ordered to pay an employer $44k in costs, after a commission found his allegations were "unreasonable and capricious".

Queensland Industrial Relations Commissioner Roslyn McLennan found recruitment company JM Group Holdings (trading as CBC Staff Selection) and its recruitment manager incurred "unnecessary expense" as a result of the candidate's litigation, which was also a waste of the Commission's time.

"Having triumphed in the face of [the candidate's] shake down, it is just and reasonable that [they] be so reimbursed," she said...

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