A major national university with a campus in Brisbane has admitted to underpaying 1100 casual academic staff to the tune of $3.6m over seven years. Australian Catholic University released a statement on Wednesday disclosing the discrepancy, which occurred between 2016 ...

Hundreds of staff from Southern Cross University will be reimbursed after an independent review uncovered "anomalies in payments, salaries and entitlement" in the university's financial records. Last year, SCU commissioned an independent review into payments made under its most recent ...

Australian universities have underpaid their staff by at least $107.8 million since 2020, according to a new report. The ‘NTEU wage theft report’, released Monday, analysed 34 separate incidents of wage theft across 22 universities and found the University of ...

The University of Melbourne will face legal action over allegations of underpaying casual staff and keeping false or misleading records. On Friday, The Fair Work Ombudsman announced the university would be taken to federal court over claims it failed to ...

Eleven universities across the country have been flagged and are being investigated by the Fair Work Ombudsman for potential wage theft, with the NTEU saying some casual staff could be owed up to tens of thousands. In a letter sent ...

Another horror week for the university sector ends with RMIT admitting underpaying thousands of casual staff members and agreeing to pay back approximately $10 million. This week has seen Monash university fight further accusations of wage theft and Federation University ...

Monash university is again at the centre of a wage theft scandal as it admits to underpaying professional staff this year. Earlier this year Monash made a voluntary disclosure to the Fair Work Ombudsman that between January 1 2014 and ...

Wage theft accusations are following the University of Sydney again this week, as 80 casual staff allege that they have been underpaid by millions over a six-year period.  Over the last two years more than twelve Australian universities have been, ...

Monash has become the latest university to own up to wage theft, announcing that they owe casual academics millions in underpayments. After an internal investigation Monash VC Margaret Gardner has admitted that between January 1 2014 and 30 June 2020 ...

** Updated 6.40pm ** Staff, students and community representatives converged on the University of Melbourne’s vice-chancellor’s home today to demand a settlement to underpayments to 615 Faculty of Arts casual teaching staff, totalling nearly $6 million. However, an impromptu and ...