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AUT will return to the Employment Relations Authority today as part of its plans to make 170 academic staff redundant.
Yesterday, after a legal bid by the union representing teaching staff, the Authority found the University's process for issuing redundancy notices was flawed and breached the collective agreement.
It found that volunteers for redundancy should have been called for once specific positions were identified as surplus, but this did not happen.
In a letter to staff yesterday AUT's Group Director of People and Culture Beth Bundy, said AUT's view of the findings differs from that of the TEU.
She says the university will return to the ERA today to seek clarification and hopes to have that by tomorrow.
Kathryn speaks with Lesley Ferkins, Director of AUT's Sports Performance Research Institute and Professor of Sport, Leadership and Governance.
She has kept her job in the restructure, but has written an impassioned letter to the Vice Chancellor and leadership team denouncing the redundancy process as lacking in transparency sound leadership values.
