In short:
The National Tertiary Education Union says two decorated academics were illegally sacked because of their advocacy and is taking legal action to have them reinstated.
Macquarie University denied the accusations “in the strongest possible terms”, saying its redundancy process was “rigorous and fair”.
What’s next?
The union said it was extremely rare for it to fund this kind of legal action.
Redundancy legislation/regulation is already massively stacked in favour of the employer.
There is no formalised process they’re supposed to do, as far as I’m aware. They’re just supposed to do a process. It seems largely determined by case law…
Also it’s only 3 MONTHS before they can hire people again for the same role, and that again is not legislated/regulated. Just seems to be the rule of thumb/case law. (I am not a lawyer).
Meaning 1. you have to know they’ve rehired someone and 2. You need to take them to court for unfair dismissal.
Absolute joke.
Reminder to all that the Labor party is pretty weak on workers rights, it’s just they’re km ahead of the LNP and One Nation.
Hope these two workers get a just outcome.
