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"Australia's unluckiest job applicant" ordered to pay recruiters $44k

A job applicant who became "somewhat of a serial pest" must pay $44k to a recruitment company after making a string of "unmeritorious" discrimination claims.

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...