Currently if your position is made redundant any severance pay you are entitled to is calculated according to your fraction at the time your position is made redundant. This can be very disadvantageous to staff who have worked full time for long periods of their career, but have recently or temporarily changed to part time and are then made redundant.
In Enterprise Bargaining, the University has offered to change this so that redundancy payments are calculated via averaging your fraction across your entire career.
However, the University will not provide any analysis regarding to what extent the effects of this are likely to be disadvantageous (ie. they will not investigate and report on the number of staff who would be likely to receive less severance pay should this change occur).
