Continuing staff who have had enough can apply for voluntary separation, (not redundancy)

VC Deborah Terry says management, “is willing to undertake consultation where departures may have an impact on the workloads of remaining staff.”  This will make for interesting discussions, when the only person who knows how to cold-start the thingatron wants to leave and colleagues say they should stay.

Professor Terry also reminds staff that they have to take three leave days over Christmas, (if they haven’t got them they will still be paid but go into negative balance on holidays).

These are the only announced all-university staff savings, which rather confirms the VC’s point that, “compared to most other Australian universities, Uni Queensland is in a healthy position (CMM September 14).