** 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many international students are being massively rorted by employers, a landmark survey has found. Researchers from UNSW and UTS canvassed 4,300 temporary migrants, many of whom were international students. Among other disquieting findings, they discovered a quarter of international students earned $12 ...