Current estimations show that the wage theft has impacted more than 7,500 staff.
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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 new payment system adopted by Griffith University failed to pay many casual workers on March 7 leading to a dispute with the NTEU.
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.
In 2019, the Migrant Justice Institute investigated the working conditions of international students around the country. The disappointing, yet unfortunately…
The Fair Work Ombudsman said “We are committed to driving cultural change in the university sector.”
Casual staff had not been paid for all hours worked, and nearly half were afraid to ask for their entitled pay.
Monash has applied to the Fair Work Commission to retrospectively change the enterprise agreement in place between the University and the NTEU from 2019.
Despite this admission, the University maintains that “the School [of Psychology] was not aware” that this practice resulted in wage theft.
The Fair Work Ombudsman alleges that UniMelb’s benchmark payment system breaches the Fair Work Act and the Enterprise Agreement between the University and the NTEU.