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Staff at Victorian universities are fighting to overhaul what they say is a two-tiered employment model in which some are stuck on insecure contracts for years. 
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After years of systemic underpayment of casual university staff, the Fair Work Ombudsman has launched legal action against one of Australia’s wealthiest universities.
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Casual staff often miss out on professional development and feel isolated and invisible. Team teaching helps support these staff while improving the continuity and quality of university teaching.
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As casual staff, we face impossible targets and routinely do unpaid work
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The higher education sector may be the the third largest employer of casual staff in Australia. More cuts to universities mean the use of casual academics could increase further.
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The University of Melbourne has received the highest bill for staff underpayment claims in the country, at $31.6 million from four separate incidents in the past three years.
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After years of revelations about the university sector's "dirty secret" — casualisation rates as high as two-thirds of all staff and the wage theft that goes with it — there could be a solution, writes Conor Duffy.
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Casual University of Melbourne staff who were underpaid by millions are set to receive their money before Christmas after a dispute was resolved.
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Casualisation is not a valid hiring practice with ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ but a system of exploitation that brutalises academics and imperils not only teaching and research, but the spirit of inquiry itself.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Link thanks to @kate_cantrell
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