A new report has found that Australian universities, including those at the top, have underpaid their staff by at least $83 million (US$57 million) since 2020.
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has released an analysis (pdf) that identifies 34 cases of wage theft in Australia’s higher education sector in the last three years.
In those cases, the union “conservatively” estimated that higher education employees were owed a total of $83.4 million.
And if three other ongoing cases are added to the analysis, the figure will likely hit the $90 million threshold.
The report stated that the NTEU had recovered millions of dollars in wage theft for employees….