What was promised for end April will not happen

Last December the university committed to paying casuals the Enterprise Agreement specified rate for marking that they had not received in the past, by this month.

However yesterday COO Mark Smith advised “the complexity of assessing marking protocols across our school and ensuring the new marking guidelines being developed are fit for purpose and can be accurately applied to back payments means this process has taken longer than originally planned.”

Which started a ways back. In December 2020 LT U asked casual staff who thought they had been underpaid to get in touch (CMM December 11 2020). The Fair Work Ombudsman got involved (CMM March 12 2021) and the university commissioned an independent audit, which identified possible problems including, PhD-qualified casuals not being paid the right rate for teaching (CMM June 18 2021).

And so the university started a “deep analysis” “to quantify, then rectify, any underpayments that may have occurred.”

Which nearly a year on appears is still not complete.