Management discovers some 7171 workers were under or overpaid at some stage between February 2014 and August 2020

The university is not saying how many are owed how much – but overall remediation costs are $6.29m.

People on staff will get what their pay, with interest, in today’s pay-run. Former workers are being contacted. Anybody overpaid gets to keep it.

The university attributes the problem to errors in recording pay and allowances owing, or to mistakes in applying Enterprise Agreement conditions.

Uni Newcastle has form in mucking payments up. In 2018, it called Deloitte in to address “potential anomalies” in paying people’s super, (CMM July 27).