TERTIARY academics are working longer hours and taking on more responsibility. They also believe the standard ...
THE intervention of WorkCover in a dispute ...
Workloads and Occupational Stress
Over the past two decades there have been major reductions in the funding of public universities in Australia, and reports of stress in university staff due to increased work pressure and reduced social support have escalated. However, in order to attract and retain high quality staff, universities must provide staff with a supportive working environment.
Recent Posts
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Experience of Work Survey
Work! Love it? Tolerate it? Loathe it? What influences you in your daily work?
Share your views in an online research project being conducted by the University of South Australia and help to make a ... -
La Trobe academic staff petition for equitable and transparent workloads
The academic workloads dispute is still awaiting further discussion and arbitration at Fair Work Commission. In the meantime members at the last Union meeting moved a motion about academic ...
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(52 KB) - PDFLa Trobe petition for hours based academic workload allocations
Published: 20 Mar, 2013
Tags: la trobe, LTU, petition, EB6,
Academic staff of La Trobe University are being allocated workloads based upon a points system which does not relate to the time it takes to undertake tasks. Academic members are petitioning for a transparent and equitable workload allocations system.
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Academic Workloads
The Union’s proposal for better regulation of academic workloads is scheduled for discussion at the next bargaining meeting. NTEU’s approach involves the development of Faculty- based ...
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Workload pressures a key theme at members meetings
Last week NTEU organisers met with members in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, School of Political and Social Science and School of Culture and Communication. At these meetings ...
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Go Home On Time Day, Wed 21 Nov 2012
Wednesday 21 November
Do you find yourself working back late? Never enough hours in the day to do all the things you need or want to do? Are work calls or emails getting in the way of enjoying free ...
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NTEU Response to 'The UTAS Academic'
Below is the NTEU response to 'Opening UTAS to Talent :The UTAS Academic'
I sincerely thank all NTEU members who contributed to this paper, sent comments and talked/corresponded with me about their ...
Submission
(103 KB) - PDFNTEU response to The UTAS Academic
Published: 31 May, 2012
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Good News For DSA Staff
Congratulations to Staff in the Division of Student Administration (DSA) who have been working with the NTEU to address staffing issues following a recent managing change process. DSA staff were ...
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Academic workloads
Download NTEU (Flinders) submission on academic workloads to the University Consultative
Discussion Paper
(271 KB) - DOCXAcademic workloads
Published: 08 May, 2012
Tags: Flinders, Academic, workload,
NTEU (Flinders) submission on academic workloads to the University Consultative Committee
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AMC Staff lodge a dispute over workloads
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(42 KB) - PDFAMC Workload dispute
Published: 04 May, 2012
Managment have now conceded and negotiations are in place with the NTEU to achieve a workload model for staff.
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CASPA the Unfriendly Ghost of Pay Systems Past
What is CASPA?
As some of you will know, Casual Academics are paid a sum each fortnight which is an average of their pay for the whole semester. This practice is no longer in line with workplace ...
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Workload Meeting Department of Psychology 6 FEB
Members,
Please find attached a notice for a meeting concerning Workload issues within the Department of Psychology. Members of other departments, the union will be organising meetings with ...
Bulletin Or Leaflet
(82 KB) - DOCWorkload Meeting Psychology Department
Published: 01 Feb, 2012
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La Trobe University Research Plan Launched
NTEU La Trobe Branch Committee members Dr Jack Reynolds and Professor Rhonda Small were warmly thanked for their detailed feedback on the La Trobe University Research Plan 2012-2015 at its launch ...
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Editorial: La Trobe staff deserve respect at work
La Trobe University staff are fed up with unfair workloads and unreasonable and, in some cases, retrospective performance expectations. Lack of genuine consultation about issues has also become ...
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Are you TOILing for the correct TOIL?
A recent spate of enquiries to the Monash Branch show that in many areas where staff accrue TOIL, it is not being accrued at the correct rate. Under our Enterprise Agreement, TOIL must accrue ...
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Greater workload equity established in Department of Business Law and Taxation
by Chris Coney, NTEU Delegate, Department of Business Law and Taxation
In the first weeks of semester one and rather out of the blue, staff in BLT were told that a new teaching model needed to be ...
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NTEU survey reveals CSU staff are overworked to the point of illness
The NTEU CSU 2011 Annual Survey has returned some alarming results, revealing that 58 per cent of academics are being overworked to the point of illness. The survey also reveals that 57 per cent of academics have suffered deterioration in family relationships, due to excessive workloads and work related stress.
A staggering 94% of surveyed academics said they frequently work more than their regular weekly hours, with 87% frequently working weekends. The survey also found 58% of respondents reported teaching workloads that breach the new workload regulations contained in the CSU Enterprise Agreement.
NTEU CSU Branch has written to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) outlining some of the results and seeking the widespread teaching-related overload at CSU to be addressed as a matter of priority. You can read a copy of the letter here.
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NTEU wins undertaking to resolve Science Academic Workloads dispute
During the recent NTEU campaign in the Faculty of Science, a dispute was notified by NTEU over the failure of management to have proper academic workload models in the Faculty. We understand since ...
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Harried, underpaid staff plan to flee sector
Major articles on job security and job dissatisfaction by Julie Hare appears in The Australian today, quoting NTEU President Jeannie Rea. These articles draw upon the newly released report by ...
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Media Release: Government Must Respond to Declining Attractiveness of the University Academic Career
Less than one-third of Australian academics believe that their workload is manageable, and close to one half of the academic workforce intend to retire, move overseas or just leave the sector over ...
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Survey on Work and Careers in Australian Universities
NTEU, along with Unisuper and Universities Australia, are industry partners on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project examining work and careers in Australian universities, which is led ...
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University staff say sector needs more government funding
A poll of over 2,200 university staff conducted in February found that an overwhelming majority of staff surveyed consider that inadequate government funding is the most significant reason why ...
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(267 KB) - PDFResults Summary - University Staff Survey
Published: 02 Aug, 2011
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Is Your University Dangerously Over-enrolled?
An article by Bernard Lane in The Australian Higher Education Supplement (www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/) on 6 July 2011 provided the following data on the levels of domestic student over ...
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Stoush to set workload paramaters at UTS
Stoush to set workload parameters
- Andrew Trounson From: The Australian June 15, 2011
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UTS General Meeting 16 June, 12 noon
NTEU UTS Branch General Meeting: Risking Quality @ UTS
Thursday 16 June, 12 noon, Broadway, Building 10, Level 2, Room 330
Important General Meeting of all Members
The union is ...
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University of Technology, Sydney nursing staff's heavier burden
By Andrew Trounson, From: The Australian, June 08, 2011 12:00am
NURSING academics at a Sydney university are being stretched to breaking point as they work 50-hour weeks, with more than 20 contact ...
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Unsustainable workloads are an OH&S issue
UTS Management has been served an Improvement Notice by the WorkCover Authority because it has been deemed to be contravening sections of the NSW OH&S Act in the Faculty of Nursing, ...
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“What’s the point of TOIL if you can’t take it?â€, members say
A group of members has alerted the NTEU to the difficulties they are experiencing with being able to use Time Off In Lieu (TOIL) that they have accrued, usually because management simply won’t ...
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ITS Members meet to discuss excessive workloads
Members in ITS have met to discuss workloads and other ramifications of the poor implementation of the ITS Review. The concerns arising from these meetings will be conveyed to management early next ...
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Academic workloads campaign at Swinburne
The Swinburne Branch of the NTEU has begun discussions with the university with a view to commencing negotiations for more manageable workload models. Presently, both the University and the ...
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ERA Journal Rankings Gone !
NTEU La Trobe Branch welcomes the announcement that the ERA rankings for journals have gone. In a Ministerial Statement, Hon. Kim Carr noted that the rankings were being 'deployed ...
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UniSA Branch Newsletter
The latest issue of The 3rd Degree is folded and posted on it's way to members.
To view it on-line, click below.
- File Size: 4 MB
- File Type: PDF
- You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this file
- Download Final April-May Newsletter ...
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Confidence in ERA lost at La Trobe Uni
La Trobe University staff gathered across four campuses via video link to discuss La Trobe University's research plans and to a pass a motion condemning the adverse consequences upon Australian ...
Media Release
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Meeting condemns research college proposal and unintended consequences of ERA
The message from yesterday's multi-campus union meeting about the DVC’s research college proposal was unequivocal. Members have demanded that it be withdrawn and have directed the Union ...
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Survey shows academic workload model not being applied in Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences
The NTEU conducted an on-line survey last week to investigate whether the academic workload model was being applied in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Science. This followed our lodgement ...
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(64 KB) - PDFWorkload Model Survey Results
Published: 13 Apr, 2011
Tags: Monash, monash university, workloads, workload model
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DVC proposal on a research excellence framework for La Trobe
The DVC(Research) has released a proposal called 'A research excellence framework for La Trobe' which is intended to set up a new Research College.
Membership of the Research College is intended to ...
Discussion Paper
(137 KB) - PDFResearch College Discussion Paper - April 2011
Published: 30 Mar, 2011
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NTEU members act collectively on workloads
Members across campuses and Faculties are reporting increased workloads caused by having to pick up the work of staff who were made redundant and a simultaneous restriction on the employment of ...
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NTEU seeks reps for Professional Staff Workloads Review Committee
The NTEU is looking for Professional staff members who might be interested in being trained to be NTEU representatives on the Professional Staff Workloads Review Committee. These representatives ...
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University staff working more survey reveals
The NTEU Victorian Division's annual "state of the sector" survey revealed that almost half of all university staff (and TAFE PACCT staff) work more than 40 hours per week, with over a quarter ...
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Media Coverage: 'Academics say uni standards slipping', The Age, 17/3/11
Academics say uni standards slipping
Sarah-Jane Collins, 17 March 2011, The Age
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OHS University Policy Committee Report Back
The Monash University Occupational Health & Safety Plan 2011 has been circulated to OHS Policy Committee members and the NTEU was not surprised to find there is no mention of any plans to develop ...
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Adelaide Branch eBulletin February No 1 2011
Bulletin Or Leaflet
(180 KB) - PDFAdelaide Branch eBulletin Frebruary No 1 2011
Published: 09 Feb, 2011
Tags: university community, Adelaide, workloads, casuals
Meeting of the University Community, Workloads and information for Casual Academics
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Adelaide Branch eBulletin February No 1 2011
Bulletin Or Leaflet
(180 KB) - PDFAdelaide Branch eBulletin Frebruary No 1 2011
Published: 09 Feb, 2011
Tags: university community, Adelaide, workloads, casuals
Meeting of the University Community, Workloads and information for Casual Academics
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Academic Workloads Update: 2nd Meeting of the Implementation Committee
Dear Academic Members,
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MEDIA RELEASE: Staff Union Says No to Job Cuts at UWA
The National Tertiary Education Union’s (NTEU) UWA Branch announced today the initiation of campaign against job cuts in the School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences (BBCS). UWA ...
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Invitation - Academic Workloads Implementation Group
The NTEU CSU branch executive invites you to join the Academic Workloads Implementation Group (AWIG). This is a vital new aspect of union work aimed at ensuring academic workloads at CSU are ...
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Media Release: UWA targets Facilities Management Staff in Restructure
UWA Management has announced a large scale restructuring of the University’s Directorate of Facilities Management. The restructure, which was announced on July 12, is expected to result in a ...
UWA Facilities Management Staff at NTEU Meeting July 15 2010
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CQU Branch newsletter - July 2010
In the July newsletter you will find articles on:
* Workloads in a period of growth
* CQU staff celebrate new agreement
* Compacts Forum
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Newsletter
(2 MB) - PDFCQU Branch newsletter - July 2010
Published: 11 Jul, 2010
Tags: CQU Newsletter
In the July newsletter you will find articles on: * Workloads in a period of growth * CQU staff celebrate new agreement * Compacts Forum * JCC report * Creating jobs - Cutting pollution * Farewell to Angela Scheers
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VU Management lose Full Bench appeal: ‘no changes’ means no changes
A long-running dispute at Victoria University (VU) over the Academic Workloads Model has finally been resolved in favour of the NTEU. A Full Bench decision from Fair Work Australia (FWA) on 18 June ...
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UB News March 2010
The latest edition of UB News is out now. We haven't had one for a while, so this is an eight-page bumper edition.
You can download it below, or if you'd like some hard copies to distribute in your ...
Newsletter
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VU management revisit Work Choices
Management at Victoria University are in the process of breaching agreements on workloads, said Dr Jamie Doughney, Victorian President of the National Tertiary Education Union today.
“Victoria ...
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Unions & UB announce new Collective Agreement
JOINT MEDIA RELEASEA proposed Union Collective Agreement has been negotiated for University of Ballarat staff.
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University workloads need regulation
In 2006, there were fewer full time equivalent teaching and research staff in universities than in 1996. Over the same time student numbers have increased dramatically.All university staff have felt ... -
Unhealthy Places of Learning
Booklet
(507 KB) - PDFUnhealthy Places of Learning
Published: 18 Jul, 2000
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0-9585209-2-5
Tags: workloads, workplace safety, stress
An NTEU study of workload and stress in Australian Universities.
