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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Natasha May

ANU asks staff to give up agreed pay rise to help reach $250m cost cuts

‘Everything needs to be on the table including salaries,’ ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell told staff
‘Everything needs to be on the table including salaries,’ ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell told staff. Photograph: AAP

The Australian National University is asking staff to forgo an agreed pay rise – a request the union says will do nothing to stave off a potential 638 job cuts and only reveals the chancellery’s “complete mismanagement and delusion”.

The vice-chancellor of ANU, Prof Genevieve Bell, sent an email to all university staff on Tuesday which asked them “to consider forgoing the upcoming 2.5% December pay increase under the ANU enterprise agreement [EA]”.

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