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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy Education reporter

UTS ordered by SafeWork NSW to pause job cuts due to risk of ‘psychological harm’

The University of Technology Sydney
In April, UTS told staff that around a tenth of its workforce could lose their jobs as the university pursued cost cuts. UTS has still not specified which jobs would be cut. Photograph: Graham Jepson/Alamy

The University of Technology Sydney has been forced to pause a plan to slash hundreds of jobs after a rare intervention by SafeWork NSW, which said workers would be subject to a “serious and imminent risk of psychological harm” if management pushed ahead.

Under the ruling, UTS cancelled all meetings scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday with about 800 impacted staff and paused the release of its change proposal, which was to be rolled out this week.

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