Monash is coming under pressure once again for years-long wage theft allegations.
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The alleged wage theft affected casual academics.
A class action lawsuit is being prepared against UniLodge and USyd for years-long underpayment of students working at UniLodge-managed properties, including Regiment.
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…
The committee heard casualisation had negative impacts on academic freedom, the student experience, and the wellbeing of casual employees.
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?’”
