Australian university staff have collectively lost almost $159 million in stolen wages.
Tag: Wage Theft
The LNP is determined to privatize, outsource and reduce the Public Service and leave behind a piecemeal Service incapable of offering anything in the face of emergencies. Their purpose is to prevent the most unionized sector from improving wages. They have given free rein to import cheaper labor, increase wage theft, and casualize the workforce while the cost of living has been increasing leaving the free choice of improvement through unionization in tatters. Better conditions aren’t as important to the LNP that banning the flying of the Eureka flag on government sights.
The list of Australian universities that have admitted to systematically underpaying casual employees is growing every month. The scale of the problem shows that these aren’t innocent errors — rather, wage theft is built into the core of casual work.
Source: To End the Epidemic of Wage Theft, Australian Universities Must Abolish Piece Rates
In industries propped up by temporary migrant workers, underpayment of workers is so widespread, it’s said to have become a business model. #TheDrum reporter @rubycornish takes a look at widespread wage theft in Australia
via Coalition’s workplace laws to diminish unions, not wage theft
A landmark study has found a silent underclass of vulnerable Australian workers is owed an estimated billion dollars with almost a third paid $12 per hour or less – almost half of their legal entitlements.
The University of NSW (UNSW) and Univerity of Technology Sydney (UTS) research found that fewer than one in ten migrant workers has taken action to recover unpaid wages, even though they know they are being underpaid. The remaining nine in ten suffered wage theft in silence.
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