There are claims PhD qualified casual teaching staff are not being paid the Enterprise Agreement rate for the job at Uni Melbourne, in breach of the Enterprise Agreement

Word is that some in faculty managements want to pay a reduced rate for work not in a casual staffers area of expertise. To which people respond by pointing to the Enterprise Agreement clauses for “derived sessional teaching rates” in particular 2.8.4.1 (b) which sets a rate, “where the duties include full subject coordination or the academic possesses a relevant doctoral qualification.”

Yesterday the campus branch of the National Tertiary Education Union wrote to deans, requesting they, “immediately review their current casual academic rates of pay to ensure compliance.”