Another horror week for the university sector ends with RMIT admitting underpaying thousands of casual staff members and agreeing to pay back approximately $10 million. This week has seen Monash university fight further accusations of wage theft and Federation University ...
More »Monash again accused of wage theft by staff
Monash university is again at the centre of a wage theft scandal as it admits to underpaying professional staff this year. Earlier this year Monash made a voluntary disclosure to the Fair Work Ombudsman that between January 1 2014 and ...
More »USyd accused of wage theft by casual staff
Wage theft accusations are following the University of Sydney again this week, as 80 casual staff allege that they have been underpaid by millions over a six-year period. Over the last two years more than twelve Australian universities have been, ...
More »Monash admits to massive wage theft
Monash has become the latest university to own up to wage theft, announcing that they owe casual academics millions in underpayments. After an internal investigation Monash VC Margaret Gardner has admitted that between January 1 2014 and 30 June 2020 ...
More »Surprise win for casuals rallying at University of Melbourne VC’s mansion today, called a ‘gross invasion’ of privacy
** Updated 6.40pm ** Staff, students and community representatives converged on the University of Melbourne’s vice-chancellor’s home today to demand a settlement to underpayments to 615 Faculty of Arts casual teaching staff, totalling nearly $6 million. However, an impromptu and ...
More »Report finds USyd owes casuals 753 hours of unpaid work
A joint report prepared by casual lecturers at the University of Sydney has concluded that some university courses are only continuing because staff are not being paid their full hours. In what the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is now ...
More »NTEU to take ‘wage theft’ case to the federal court
Another wage scandal has rocked the higher education sector, with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) beginning proceedings against private higher education provider JMC Academy in the federal court. The NTEU is alleging that the academy’s “employment practices for its ...
More »Almost a quarter of universities ‘engulfed’ in wage theft, says NTEU
The number of Australian universities who have allegedly committed wage theft is mounting, with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) saying it accounts for one quarter of all our universities. The NTEU is threatening a “wave of class actions” in ...
More »‘Diabolical’ and ‘systemic’: Australia’s top-ranked university caught up in wage scandal
Australia’s top-ranked university is repaying more than 1,500 academics in an underpayment scandal involving four faculties. The National Tertiary Education Union’s national president Dr Alison Barnes called the revelations about the University of Melbourne “diabolical” and “systemic”, with other top-tier ...
More »New report reveals the exploitation of international students in Australia
A new report has found that more than three in four international students in Australia are being paid less than the minimum casual wage, and one in four said they were receiving less than half the minimum wage in their ...
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