The university now has the title as one of Australia’s worst underpayers of staff. The Fair Work Ombudsman is not impressed.
Melbourne University’s horror run of court cases over underpayment of staff will continue in the Federal Court after it was alleged to have underpaid 14 casual academics $154,400 over nearly three years.last November.
The University of Melbourne is repaying $45 million in staff underpayments, but more cases keep arising.In the most recent case, the Fair Work Ombudsman says that between February 2017 and December 2019, the university failed to pay 14 casual academics in the Faculty of Arts for marking work at the hourly rates required under its enterprise agreements.
According to the NTEU, the university failed to record all hours worked by the casual academics, and made and kept records known by some managers within the faculty to be false or misleading.Mr Gonzalez said the continuing problems over underpayment of casual academics stemmed from the fact the university was “a collection of villages”.
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