Australian Universities Deprive Casual Employees of Wages and Super: Inquiry

Australian Universities Deprive Casual Employees of Wages and Super: Inquiry
People walk past signage for Australian universities in Melbourne's central business district in Melbourne, Australia, on June 10, 2020. William West/AFP via Getty Images
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Casual staff at Australian universities are complaining that their employers short-change them millions of dollars a year via regular underpayment practices.

A parliamentary inquiry into the unlawful underpayment of workers was alerted on Feb. 22 that over nine in ten casual workers at the University of Sydney did not receive compensation for carrying out a certain amount of work during the second semester in 2020.

Alfred Bui
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