University of Queensland underpaid casual staff by nearly $8 million between 2017 and 2023

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The university has sent an email to staff apologising for the mistake, which it said spanned from January 2017 to December 2023.

One of Australia's largest universities underpaid almost 10,000 casual staff members by more than $7.5 million over seven years.

The email from Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry AC said the period spanned from January 2017 to December 2023, and the total amount owed to the 9,743 affected staff was $7.88 million.She said the median amount owed was $243.National Tertiary Education Union Queensland secretary Michael McNally said the scale of the underpayment was "staggering".

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