Monash is seeking to stop another Federal Court claim that alleges casual and sessional teachers were not being properly paid for consulting students.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Australia’s largest university, Monash, is seeking to avoid paying at least $10 million it allegedly owes its staff by using an unusual legal tactic to stop a wage theft claim being launched against it.
The university is trying to do so by applying to the Fair Work Commission to retrospectively alter a workplace agreement that had been operating since 2019. National Tertiary Education Union president Dr Alison Barnes accused Monash of the “height of employer bastardry”.“They negotiated that enterprise bargaining agreement in good faith and to try to alter it is extraordinary,” she said.
A spokesman for Monash said it applied to change the agreement “to provide certainty to both staff and the university” over the issue. But there is lean time between semesters and the lack of permanency makes other life decisions, such as buying a house, difficult. “There is also an extensive program of work currently under way to reduce our reliance on casual employment, to rethink our workforce model and to improve our employment and management practices,” the spokesman said.
Being forced to mark at far greater speed than the assessments requires meant work could not be properly assessed. “It affects the quality of teaching and learning.”
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