Casual teaching pay rates were an issue last year and years before that

There were disputes over rates per hour and hours paid in a number of schools (CMM, June 5, October 30) but the one just sorted out in Maths and Statistics appears the biggest.

Probably the longest – it started in 2009, when management decided what were then tutorials were practice classes, which paid a lower rate.

After much protest, especially last year, university management decided to reinstate the tutorial rate. Earlier this month Maths and Stats advised sessionals of the decision.

Good news for casuals, while the university has not commented, number-crunching suggests they could be owed a collective $500 000 plus for 2019. Word is the campus branch of the National Tertiary Education Union will be pushing for back-pay for last and previous years.