In 2019, the Migrant Justice Institute investigated the working conditions of international students around the country. The disappointing, yet unfortunately…
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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.
The University seemingly set out to investigate casuals’ wage theft without a specific plan to speak with casuals. The University has since disputed this claim.
Students and staff rally against the systemic wage theft perpetrated by University management, with a focus on the plight of casual staff.
Both universities have been forced by the Fair Work Ombudsman to back pay staff more than $9 million in stolen wages.
The University of Melbourne allegedly attempted to coerce two casual academics to prevent them from being paid in full.
