Volunteer to go or we’ll force job losses, says Macquarie University
Macquarie University will offer voluntary redundancies to staff to deal with a $70m revenue shortfall this year.
Macquarie University will offer voluntary redundancies to staff to deal with a $70m revenue shortfall this year that is expected to grow to a $150m loss next year, and close to $200m in 2020.
The university also indicated, in a statement on Tuesday, that if insufficient staff took the redundancy offer, forced redundancies could follow.
Vice-chancellor Bruce Dowton said COVID-19 had put the operating models of Australian universities under serious challenge. “It is no longer possible, nor desirable, for us to manage our way through the current situation or next several years by either iterative minor changes or repeated university-wide small budget cuts,” he said.
Macquarie University did not respond on Tuesday to a question on how many voluntary redundancies were needed to avoid forced job losses.
National Tertiary Education Union president Alison Barnes called on the university to be transparent about how many positions it intended to abolish.
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