Overview

• The repayment covers underpayments from 2014 to 2024 affecting casual, part-time and full-time employees, predominantly non-teaching casual staff at the main Wollongong campus.
• Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth said the undertaking was appropriate given the university’s cooperation and framed the case as a warning on long-running compliance failures.
• The $6.6 million package includes more than $4.9 million in wages and entitlements, over $1.1 million in interest, and more than $630,000 in superannuation and interest.
• Most affected staff have already been reimbursed, with individual amounts ranging from under $20 to more than $36,000, while about 200 former employees are yet to be located.
• Under the undertaking the university must fund independent audits, maintain a payment complaint and review mechanism, create a standing consultative body, and make a $130,000 contrition payment with a further payment possible after two matters are finalised.