Being a JD student can be a particularly sobering experience — being in a tight-knit cohort again feels eerily reminiscent of high school. The other day, a friend of mine mouthed to himself at a quiet moment in the Law Annex corridor “I had a job… Why am I back here?”
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The University of Melbourne has admitted to multiple breaches of the Fair Work Act and been ordered by a federal judge to pay $75,000 after threatening to punish two casual academics for working outside their contracted hours.
A casual academic working at the University of Melbourne has received a public apology in Federal Court and compensation after the university admitted she was unfairly refused work after asking for increased hours.
Staff rallied on Open Day to build support for industrial action against unfair pay, overwork, and casualisation.
Despite a recent multimillion dollar redevelopment of the hospital, the University is cutting its ties to U-Vet Werribee.
UniMelb, USyd, Monash, UNSW and the University of Queensland combined hold a whopping $37.3 billion in assets, making Australia’s universities the wealthiest since national records began.
Key demands include an end to casualisation and pay increases above inflation.
The University of Melbourne allegedly attempted to coerce two casual academics to prevent them from being paid in full.
“The University [of Melbourne] is first and foremost the ones who allow people to be on campus, and allowed him to come back. It starts with the University and ends with the University,” Sinead Fernandes said.
University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Duncan Maskell has issued a public apology to casuals for a “systematic failure of respect,” and…
