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Casual staff launch $2 million wage theft claim against USyd management

Staff are demanding renumeration for six years of unpaid marking and administration work.

October 15, 2021 Claire Ollivain
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After USyd’s denial, Fair Work Ombudsman issues strong rebuke to universities

“It seems that everyone now knows systematic underpayment occurs in Australian universities — everyone, that is, except our managers.”

October 10, 2021 Max Shanahan
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FASS dismisses wage theft evidence in internal investigation

Claims of wage theft were referred to as “a mistaken belief that casual academic staff are entitled to be paid for any time spent at their discretion and choice.”

October 7, 2021 Vivienne Guo
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USyd admits wage theft of $12.75 million

“Once again the University's response appears very much to be 'why pay your staff correctly when legally you can get away with underpaying them?'”

September 13, 2021 Claire Ollivain
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FASS Dean under hermeneutic suspicion of wage theft

Know her name.

June 18, 2021 Judy Butts
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UNSW management may pay back casuals for up to $36 million in stolen wages

The University of New South Wales is reviewing casual underpayments following pressure from the NTEU.

June 3, 2021 Claire Ollivain
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Wage theft of casual staff just ‘the tip of the iceberg,’ report finds

90% of participants performed unpaid work at the University of Sydney during Semester 2.

May 18, 2021 Claire Ollivain and Deaundre Espejo
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University investigation into widespread underpayment confirms casual staff disproportionately affected

Staff will then be notified of the status of their claim and repayments will commence in Semester 2.

April 27, 2021 Alice Trenoweth-Creswell
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USyd casuals speak out during Senate inquiry into underpayment

Dr Yaegan Doran of the USyd Casuals Network spoke on wage theft at USyd.

March 10, 2021 Deaundre Espejo
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Library staff affected by redundancies and years of underpayment

In the same week that mass underpayment of library staff was exposed, 22 librarians have accepted redundancies.

February 19, 2021 Claire Ollivain and Alice Trenoweth-Creswell

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