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No leave, no sick pay: English language teachers fight ‘rampant exploitation’ – The Age
A group of English language teachers has won almost $200,000 in withheld wages after taking on their college’s decision to slash their pay during lockdown.
The teachers also had their pay cut from $45 an hour to $35 an hour after the college transferred from face-to-face to remote learning in March, in most cases pushing their pay below award rates.
Jianming Chen, the chief executive of ANCE, declined to answer questions about the underpayment of his former teaching staff, other than to say the matter had been settled.
But he said enrolments at the college had declined from a peak of about 150 before the pandemic hit to 18 students now, putting its…
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