The National Tertiary Education Union wants a financial vaccination

Late Friday the NTEU national executive called on university managements to “find significant non-staff-related savings to minimise the impact on staff, particularly insecurely employed staff, arising from the impact of the decline in international enrolments,” and to “reassure their staff now that in the event of campus closures all staff will be paid as normal for the duration of the closure, including casuals and those who cannot work from home.”

The union also wants the federal government to, “provide affected universities with relief to their operating budgets in order to minimise the impact on staff, particularly insecurely employed staff.”