A learned reader at the University of Queensland suggests staff may not support management’s proposal to increase job security by offering more fixed-term contracts, which could replace casual hires (CMM yesterday). The problem the reader sees with management’s proposed clause is that it would empower management to offer all non- academic jobs as fixed term. With staff already anxious about job security, the LR suggests the proposal will not fly as it stands.
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