The members who will sit on the council overseeing university governance and advising government on "universities being good employers" have been announced. The panel details were released after the first underpayment scandal of the year came from Monash University, which ...
More »Melbourne uni owes staff $72m in unpaid wages, UniSQ confirms 150 staff laid off
The University of Melbourne will fork out a total of $72m to cover the underpayments of 25,000 staff, after investigations into wage theft claims found the institution had failed to properly pay employees over a 10-year period. The state’s leading tertiary institution’s remediation program has identified ...
More »Monash University owes casual academics up to $9m
Monash University is facing fresh wage theft claims from casual academics, which could force the tertiary institution to pay back millions of dollars. The university will face the Federal Court December 4-6, after more allegations of widespread wage theft from casual academics. The National Tertiary ...
More »Total wage theft expected to exceed $400m: union
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 ...
More »JCU finds more underpaid staff
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 ...
More »UniMelb fined $75,000 for breach; FedUni cuts 200 jobs
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 ...
More »“If you’re not sure, pay more”: ACU response to underpaying staff
A major national university with a campus in Brisbane has admitted to underpaying 1100 casual academic staff to the tune of $3.6m over seven years. Australian Catholic University released a statement on Wednesday disclosing the discrepancy, which occurred between 2016 ...
More »Southern Cross Uni to repay casuals after finding payroll ‘anomalies’
Hundreds of staff from Southern Cross University will be reimbursed after an independent review uncovered "anomalies in payments, salaries and entitlement" in the university's financial records. Last year, SCU commissioned an independent review into payments made under its most recent ...
More »UniMelb, USyd, RMIT underpaid staff more than $67m
Australian universities have underpaid their staff by at least $107.8 million since 2020, according to a new report. The ‘NTEU wage theft report’, released Monday, analysed 34 separate incidents of wage theft across 22 universities and found the University of ...
More »University of Melbourne faces legal action over casual’s pay
The University of Melbourne will face legal action over allegations of underpaying casual staff and keeping false or misleading records. On Friday, The Fair Work Ombudsman announced the university would be taken to federal court over claims it failed to ...
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