{"id":13473,"date":"2021-10-20T08:54:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T08:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13473"},"modified":"2021-10-20T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T08:54:40","slug":"uni-wage-theft-exposed-by-senate-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/uni-wage-theft-exposed-by-senate-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Uni wage theft exposed by Senate report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the publication of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Parliamentary_Business\/Committees\/Senate\/Job_Security\/JobSecurity\/Second_Interim_Report\">Senate Select Committee on Job Security\u2019s second interim report<\/a>, and called for its recommendations to be implemented.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Faruqi, who is a Committee Member, said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cWage theft at our universities is out of control. What\u2019s worse, most universities are continuing to wipe their hands of it and dismiss the systemic and serious nature of the underpayments.<br \/>\n\u201cCasual workers, and particularly women who are overrepresented as casuals, are bearing the brunt of this wage theft that has been allowed to flourish, almost completely unchecked until now. Casualisation and wage theft are inextricably linked. We heard from so many university staff during this inquiry about their horrific experiences.<br \/>\n\u201cAn entire generation of casual academics have been hung out to dry.<br \/>\n\u201cOur universities are in desperate need of a massive investment of public funding after the devastation of Covid-19 and the abandonment of the sector by the Commonwealth. But we also need an overhaul of university governance. The corporate university has been built by corporate, neoliberal university management.<br \/>\n\u201cThe report provides some very useful recommendations. There should be much clearer reporting requirements with respect to employment statistics. The government should require universities set publicly-available targets for increasing permanent employment, and link this to funding. There should be improved rights of entry for trade unions. All very useful initiatives, and some the Greens have proposed strengthening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the publication of the\u00a0Senate Select Committee on Job Security\u2019s second interim report, and called for its recommendations to be implemented. Senator Faruqi, who is a Committee Member, said: \u201cWage theft at our universities is out of control. What\u2019s worse, most universities are continuing to wipe their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/uni-wage-theft-exposed-by-senate-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uni wage theft exposed by Senate report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}