Monash University is facing an estimated $9 million back pay claim from its casual academics after the Fair Work Commission rejected the university’s bid to head off the claim by retrospectively altering its enterprise agreement with staff. The commission’s full bench ...
More »UTS to pay back staff over $4.4 million
More than 2700 current and former casuals at the University of Technology Sydney will receive over $4.4m after the university found proof of underpayment in its payroll over the last seven years. The university, which self-reported the underpayment in May ...
More »Fair Work rejects CDU enterprise agreement
The nation's employment watchdog has rejected Charles Darwin University's non-union enterprise agreement due to voting irregularities. The university enterprise agreement had been approved in November 2022 with 62 per cent of staff saying 'yes' to a four per cent pay ...
More »NTEU hopes for ‘widespread ramifications’ after UTS academic is reinstated and compensated
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is hopeful benchmarking trends will change after the Fair Work Commission ordered that a UTS academic be reinstated immediately and compensated. The Fair Work Commission this week overturned the University of Technology Sydney’s (UTS) ...
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