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Griffith University to Repay $8.34 Million to Underpaid Staff

After self-reporting payroll discrepancies to the Fair Work Ombudsman the university entered an enforceable undertaking including a $175,000 contrition payment to the Cleaning Accountability Framework.

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Griffith University to repay over $8 million after underpaying thousands of staff for nearly a decade.
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Overview

  • Griffith will repay $8.34 million to approximately 5,457 current and former casual, academic and professional staff for underpayments dating from 2015 to 2024, inclusive of interest and superannuation.
  • The errors affected employees across all six south-east Queensland campuses and spanned divisions from arts and education to law, business, health and sciences.
  • The Fair Work Ombudsman attributed the underpayments to insufficient training for course convenors, deficiencies in payroll systems and a lack of data review processes.
  • Under the 2022 enforceable undertaking Griffith must both complete the repayments and implement a suite of new compliance measures to prevent future wage shortfalls.
  • The deal makes Griffith the sixth Australian university to sign such an undertaking since 2022 as part of a broader regulator crackdown on systemic underpayments.