The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO has launched Federal Court action against the University of Melbourne, alleging that it engaged in unlawful adverse action against two casual academics. They had been engaged by the university on a series of short-term casual teaching contracts over a number of years, with their contracts setting out ‘anticipated hours’.
However, when one of the academics began claiming overtime for hours worked beyond their ”anticipated hours’, their supervisor allegedly threatened not to employ them again. Her alleged threat in 2020 came just a matter of days after it had been publicly reported that the university had underpaid casual academics by several million dollars over the past decade.
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