The university also agreed to a Comprehensive External Review to assess further underpayments
The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has back-paid more than $1.9 million to hundreds of employees that it underpaid as a result of payroll system errors.
A total of 433 employees received the payment, which includes wages and entitlements exceeding $1.748 million, interest of more than $143,000, and superannuation of more than $24,000, according to the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO).
Payments made to individual employees ranged from less than $10 to more than $78,000, including superannuation and interest.
"QUT values the contributions of its staff and has sincerely and unreservedly apologised for these errors," the university said in a statement.
"The University is committed to resolving these issues and ensuring all staff are paid appropriately and receive their full entitlements."
The back-pay is part of the Enforceable Undertaking (EU) that the university entered with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO). The EU also requires the university to make a contrition payment of $250,000.
The QUT became aware of the underpayments in 2019, and self-reported the situation to the FWO in 2021.
It said the underpayments were partially because of their payroll system's failure to ensure automatic payment of staff entitlements.
"The attendance record for professional staff is not integrated with QUT's payroll system meaning that a separate claim for overtime and any...
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