Congratulations to Staff in the Division of Student Administration (DSA) who have been working with the NTEU to address staffing issues following a recent managing change process. DSA staff were ...
NTEU (Flinders) submission on academic workloads to the University Consultative Committee
Managment have now conceded and negotiations are in place with the NTEU to achieve a workload model for staff.
What is CASPA?
As some of you will know, Casual Academics are paid a sum each fortnight which is an average of their pay for the whole semester. This practice is no longer in line with workplace ...
Members,
Please find attached a notice for a meeting concerning Workload issues within the Department of Psychology. Members of other departments, the union will be organising meetings with ...
NTEU La Trobe Branch Committee members Dr Jack Reynolds and Professor Rhonda Small were warmly thanked for their detailed feedback on the La Trobe University Research Plan 2012-2015 at its launch ...
La Trobe University staff are fed up with unfair workloads and unreasonable and, in some cases, retrospective performance expectations. Lack of genuine consultation about issues has also become ...
A recent spate of enquiries to the Monash Branch show that in many areas where staff accrue TOIL, it is not being accrued at the correct rate. Under our Enterprise Agreement, TOIL must accrue ...
by Chris Coney, NTEU Delegate, Department of Business Law and Taxation
In the first weeks of semester one and rather out of the blue, staff in BLT were told that a new teaching model needed to be ...
The NTEU CSU 2011 Annual Survey has returned some alarming results, revealing that 58 per cent of academics are being overworked to the point of illness. The survey also reveals that 57 per cent of academics have suffered deterioration in family relationships, due to excessive workloads and work related stress.
A staggering 94% of surveyed academics said they frequently work more than their regular weekly hours, with 87% frequently working weekends. The survey also found 58% of respondents reported teaching workloads that breach the new workload regulations contained in the CSU Enterprise Agreement.
NTEU CSU Branch has written to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) outlining some of the results and seeking the widespread teaching-related overload at CSU to be addressed as a matter of priority. You can read a copy of the letter here.