Soon to be governor of Victoria, Margaret Gardner publishes a considered piece on HE funding, the role of casuals and the complexities of university-system payroll practises (scroll down).

It appeared as Deputy President Bell of the Fair Work Commission knocked Monash U back over an attempt to add words to the 2019 enterprise agreement, to end an ambiguity regarding times when casual staff are paid for student contact.

The DP stated, “while the university’s desire to bring the disputing parties out from the “no man’s land” of uncertainty  is  laudable, that objective can  be applied  to many  disputes involving  the operation of terms of an enterprise agreement. But … that outcome needs to be anchored against a principled assessment of the potential rights of those affected.”