Casual university staff speak on precarious employment before Senate Committee
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April 13, 2021
Representatives from the Casualised, Unemployed & Precarious Uni Workers AU (CUPUW) spoke to the Senate Select Committee on Job Security today. The Committee was established in December 2020 to inquire into the impact of insecure or precarious employment on workplace rights and conditions, the economy and wages.
Speakers Dr Yaegan Doran, Dani Cotton, and Morgan Jones presented evidence on the impact insecure work had on their lives and on the quality of education for students.
The ‘financial, personal, educational and health impacts’ of job insecurity
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USyd casuals speak out during Senate inquiry into underpayment
Dr Yaegan Doran of the USyd Casuals Network spoke on wage theft at USyd.
March 10, 2021
In a public hearing this morning, a panel of academic staff from Casualised, Unemployed, and Precarious University Workers (CUPUW) provided evidence of wage theft at universities for a Senate inquiry into unlawful underpayment.
The inquiry commenced in November, when underpayment of casual staff across Australia’s universities were brought to light. Subsequently, ten universities made back payments and the University of Sydney admitted to wage theft of almost $9 million. Individual cases are currently being heard.
Today’s sitting saw Dr Yaegan Doran of the USyd Casuals Network speak on the situation at the University of Sydney.
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After being underpaid by the University of Melbourne for five years, casual tutor Kai Tanter is now expecting $20,000 in back pay before Christmas.
“It feels like a giant weight has been taken off my shoulders,” he said.
Kai Tanter at home in Preston on Satuyday.
Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
“Finding out we were being underpaid was horrible. It felt like I was being used by the system and undervalued.