Thousands of casual university staff at Monash University are set to receive over ten million dollars in back-pay following a significant wage theft settlement. The university reached an agreement in the Federal Court, impacting current and former casual teaching associates who performed unpaid student consultations over the past nine and a half years. The settlement also includes a four hundred and fifty thousand dollar contrition payment to the National Tertiary Education Union. This development follows a legal challenge initiated by the union, which found that Monash had breached its enterprise agreements and violated the Fair Work Act. The university has since updated its practices and will undertake a proactive program to identify and compensate affected staff. This case sends a strong message to the entire tertiary education sector, as wage theft is a systemic issue with underpayments and provisional payments across the nation exceeding four hundred and fifty million dollars.

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