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University of Melbourne Fined $75,000 for Threatening Casual Academic Staff

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The University of Melbourne has been fined almost $75,000 after it threatened to punish two casual academic staff members for claiming outside their contracted hours. The Fair Work Ombudsman took the university to court over the claims.

will cough up almost $75,000 in fines after it threatened to punish two casual academic staff if they claimed outside their contracted hours.

In early 2021, one of the academics went on to try to claim five hours more than her contracted hours.The University of Melbourne will cough up almost $75,000 in fines. The academic resubmitted her time sheet disregarding the extra hours she worked but still, the supervisor went on to tell a professor the casual staffer was on a "crusade behind the scenes".

 

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