Working Offshore & Excess Baggage

Working Offshore is a guide for members on issues surrounding overseas work. 

Working Offshore (A5, 24pp) is a compact guide full of practical advice essential for any Australian university employee considering working overseas.  It covers legal issues, employment rights, working conditions, preparation, travel and accommodation, workloads, adequacy of facilities and support, occupational health and safety, quality and professional issues, and work and family issues. 

Read as online e-book here. Or download PDF here.

Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage is the research report which provided the background for the guide.   Excess Baggage contains the research results and includes suggested best practice in relation to the regulation of offshore work.  Over the course of 2003 and 2004, NTEU undertook a major research project into Australian staff involvement in the delivery of offshore programs offered by Australian universities.   The research arose from growing staff concern about industrial and professional issues associated with their involvement in offshore programs and a paucity of research in this area, and included case studies of ten Australian universities heavily involved in offshore activities.

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Credits

The research on the project was undertaken by members of the NTEU  Policy and Research Unit together with Mark Rosenfeld, Policy Director of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), who was a visiting researcher with NTEU during 2003