A string of class actions against health services in Victoria, NSW and the ACT is underway over the alleged underpayment of junior doctors.
A string of class actions against health services in Victoria, NSW and the ACT is underway over claims junior doctors have been underpaid.Ten class actions have been launched across Australia on behalf of junior doctors amid claims of widespread and systemic underpayment
Since the NSW lawsuit was brought in 2020, nine more class actions have been filed across Australia on behalf of junior doctors who worked in the public health system between approximately 2015 and 2022. In Victoria, the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation doctors' union is listed as an applicant on each class action, together with a named individual doctor.
Two-thirds reported they worked more than 40 hours on average per week, including one in 10 who worked more than 60 hours on average per week., 47 per cent reported never being paid for unrostered overtime.
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