{"id":14020,"date":"2021-11-25T09:24:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2021-11-25T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:24:35","slug":"huge-rmit-wage-theft-bill-vindicates-casual-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/huge-rmit-wage-theft-bill-vindicates-casual-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge RMIT wage theft bill vindicates casual staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to reports that RMIT will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/victoria\/rmit-casuals-win-millions-in-back-pay-as-ombudsman-pursues-14-unis-20211124-p59bo4.html\">pay back<\/a>\u00a0up to $10 million to casual staff for work dating back to 2014.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cCasual university staff are absolutely sick and tired of being underpaid, undervalued and taken for granted.<br \/>\n\u201cWage theft at our campuses is systemic and universities are finally realising they can no longer run away from this. This wage theft disproportionately affects casual staff and women.<br \/>\n\u201cAs universities have casualised their workforces, wage theft has been allowed to fester, and it\u2019s now been revealed that staff at campuses in all parts of the country are affected.<br \/>\n\u201cMy congratulations must go to the staff and unions who continue to fight hard for the rights of university workers.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Senate Inquiry into Job Security, which I sit on, has made numerous excellent recommendations with respect to wage theft which should be implemented as a matter of urgency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to reports that RMIT will\u00a0pay back\u00a0up to $10 million to casual staff for work dating back to 2014. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cCasual university staff are absolutely sick and tired of being underpaid, undervalued and taken for granted. \u201cWage theft at our campuses is systemic and universities &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/huge-rmit-wage-theft-bill-vindicates-casual-staff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Huge RMIT wage theft bill vindicates casual staff&#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-14020","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\/14020","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=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}