There’s a push for universities to pay people who will lose a day’s wages because of the snap public holiday on September 22

(For readers on Mars, Queen Elizabeth II is dead and officially we need a day t0 deal with it).

Australian Catholic U has agreed.  Acting COO Paul Campbell tells the university community that sessional and casual academic staff scheduled to work will be paid if classes are cancelled. However if there are any other non-academic workers affected they are out of luck.

ACU’s National Tertiary Education Union branch president Leah Kaufmann proposed the payment on Monday and “applauds” management’s decision.

Uni Sydney followed within hours with VC Mark Scott going for major magnanimous, “while the University is not required to pay casually employed staff for work lost to a public holiday, in recognition of the unexpected nature of this holiday the University will.”

And ANU followed yesterday afternoon.

CMM suspects that the story by Monday will be the universities who aren’t.