Casual Staff
With over one third of employees being casual workers, tertiary education ranks as one of the most casualised industries in Australia, along with hotels, tourism and fruit-picking. Australia has amongst the highest level of casual employment in the world. Casual employees in our industry are frequently exploited, underpaid, overworked and left with few avenues for assistance or redress through their institutions.
In 2008, NTEU is campaigning at every university for significant improvements in pay and better job security for casuals, as well as better access to facilities and resources. To view NTEU’s national claims relating to casual employment, click here. For more information contact Sarah Roberts on sarah.roberts@nteu.org.au.
For answers to all your questions about being a university casual and how NTEU can assist you, please visit our special casuals website, www.unicasual.com.au or download 'Smart Casuals', the NTEU handbook for casual and sessional university staff (2007 edition).
Academic Papers
A selection of recent academic papers on casual employment in the higher education sector. To include a paper please contact the National Industrial Unit.| Casual University Work: Choice, Risk, Inequity and the Case for Regulation | Paper by Dr Anne Junor (UNSW), published in Economic and Labour Relations Review Vol 14 No 2 January 2004, on the demographics and career preferences of casual employees in Australia's universities. |
| ‘Getting the best of you for nothing’: casual voices in the Australian academy | ‘Getting the best of you for nothing: Casual voices in the Australian academy'. A 2006 paper written by Tony Brown, James Goodman and Keiko Yasukawa (UTS) for the NTEU. An in-depth qualitative study of the experiences of casual academic staff in an Australian University. |
Casuals Bargaining Claims
| Casual Bargaining Claims |