UC lifts casual staff super to 17% with new enterprise deal
Staff get 14.5 per cent salary increases over five years alongside the super boost.
Casual academic staff at UC voted for a new deal. The deal boosts superannuation to 17 per cent by 2030.
The deal also includes 14.5 per cent pay growth over five years and 30 weeks of paid parental leave. The university has started repaying 255 current and former staff for six years of underpayment.
The total is $243,979. Errors included PhD qualifications not recognised in pay rates.
Unit convenor duties went unpaid. Lectures were wrongly treated as repeat rather than initial payments.
Vice-Chancellor Bill Shorten apologised for the historic mistakes. He said the super increase recognised casual staff's contribution to the university.
The agreement needs Fair Work Commission approval before it takes effect.
- 17 per cent by 2030
- Super increase target
- 14.5 per cent
- Total salary increase over five years
- 255 current and former staff
- Staff receiving back pay
- $243,979
- Total underpayment restitution
Why it mattersCasual university staff often lack retirement security. This agreement locks in strong super growth. It also fixes years of underpayment.
AustraliaFor 255 UC casual staff, this means $950 average back-pay and steadily higher retirement savings. The deal may pressure other Australian universities to improve casual employment terms.
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