Macquarie University has found it underpaid almost 3,000 casual academic staff by a combined $1.9m between 2017 and 2023. The announcement comes after an internal investigation between 2016 and 2022, initiated by the university itself, found another 1033 casual academics who ...

The Australian National University has admitted to underpaying 2290 workers a total of $2 million, an average of $599 each, over 11 years due to casual timesheet processing errors. A frequenty asked questions page about the issue on ANU's website ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has called for an urgent parliamentary inquiry into wage theft in universities after revealing institutions have now underpaid staff by almost $400m since 2009. The data released on Wednesday showed a total of $382m ...

The University of Queensland (UQ) will repay almost $8m to nearly 10,000 casual academics after admitting they were underpaid for their work from 2017 to 2023. Vice-chancellor Deborah Terry said she unreservedly apologised to those who had been affected by ...

Swinburne University has reported itself to the Fair Work Ombudsman after an investigation found more than 1800 current and former staff had been underpaid between 2017 and 2023. The investigation found 1699 employees – including casual lecturers, unit conveners, research assistants and ...

James Cook University (JCU) has launched a review into its payroll system amid concerns thousands of staff have been underpaid.  The “historical compliance concerns” relate to casual employee payments across the north Queensland university, which has staff mainly based in Cairns ...

The University of Melbourne has admitted it breached fair work legislation and has been fined almost $75,000 in the Federal Court after it threatened two casual academic staff members. The Fair Work Ombudsman pursued legal action against the university when ...

RMIT University union staff are expected to pass a vote of no confidence in its vice-chancellor Alec Cameron on Monday in response to waiting a record 1000 days for a new pay deal. Lecturers, tutors, academics, administrative staff and other ...

Universities have underpaid their staff by at least $159m since 2009, with most of the wage loss occurring during the past 10 years, according the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). In a new “wage theft” report released on Tuesday the ...

The University of Sydney Association of Professors (USAP) has strongly backed its president, Manuel Graeber, who was sacked from the university after a three-person committee reviewed allegations against him and ruled he had committed “serious misconduct”. In a statement on ...