University managements have pushed to simplify staff discipline procedures in new enterprise agreements – it’s a stumbling block at the University of Queensland – and now the union says the University of Newcastle is having a go According to the campus branch of the National Tertiary Education Union, management wants to end the existing arrangement where performance and misconduct matters are assessed by a committee consisting of a management person, a union rep and independent chair and replace it with an independent reviewer.

However new enterprise agreements at other unis have come with a compromise, with discipline rulings by committee subject to review by an independent arbiter who looks at process and whether the matter merits the proposed