Employee Entitlement Remediation Program

The University of Western Australia, like several other Australian universities, is currently undertaking a review of past work practices and improving its processes to ensure employees are paid correctly in line with industrial agreements.

The University self-reported to the Fair Work Ombudsman in 2024 some known and suspected instances where employee entitlements were not correctly paid. 

Since then, work has been underway to investigate and resolve identified discrepancies, and ensure employees are accurately reimbursed. This includes a Casual Review, which is focused on casual work practices across the University. 

UWA is also progressing a range of improvements to processes, practices and systems to ensure correct employee payments into the future.

The University is committed to taking the steps necessary to ensure its valued people are paid correctly for the time, effort and commitment they give to our students, research and operations.  

Key stakeholders, including the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), in addition to the Fair Work Ombudsman, are being kept informed of our progress.

Remediation paid to former and current staff 

Since the EERP was formalised in 2024, UWA has made remediation payments to: 

• A cohort of former professional and general employees who were owed additional payments of vested long service leave following their termination. Payments of more than $285,400 were made to 94 former employees in 2025.
• A small group of current and former University Hall employees who worked as Emergency Contacts within the Residential Life team and were owed additional entitlements relating to on-call rostering and related recall to duty. Payments of more than $872,900 were made to 13 former and current employees in 2025.  
• Some Early Childhood Teachers employed in the Early Learning Centre, as pay rates under the University of Western Australia Childcare Employees’ Collective Agreement 2015 fell below pay rates under the Educational Services (Teachers) Award 2020 on 1 January 2022. This meant employees had been underpaid from this date and remediation was due. Payments of more than $210,000 were made to former and current employees in 2025.
  
  

Further information 

Current staff can find more information about Employee Entitlement Remediation Program on the EERP intranet page. 

This website was updated on 12 December 2025  to make it easier for stakeholders to find current information relating to the Employee Entitlement Remediation Program. Content previously available is in this EERP webpage archive [DOCX 109 KB]– 4 December 2025 .