Monash is coming under pressure once again for years-long wage theft allegations.
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The protest follows mounting rebukes of managements’ treatment of casual staff, including investigations into wage theft across 21 universities.
Monash University will repay its casual staff $8.6 million in stolen wages dating back to 2014, with staff concerned about…
Staff are demanding renumeration for six years of unpaid marking and administration work.
The Commonwealth Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) on Friday delivered a sternly-worded rebuke to universities over mass underpayment scandals and their…
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.”
“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?’”
University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Duncan Maskell has issued a public apology to casuals for a “systematic failure of respect,” and…
The University of New South Wales is reviewing casual underpayments following pressure from the NTEU.
90% of participants performed unpaid work at the University of Sydney during Semester 2.
