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AUT's plans to made 170 academic staff redundant have been knocked-back by the Employment Relations Authority. It has found the University's process for issuing redundancy notices was flawed and breaches the collective agreement. The ERA has ruled that volunteers for redundancy should have been called for once specific positions were identified as surplus. If this had happened potentially affected staff should have then been given the opportunity to apply for voluntary severance. But AUT called for voluntary redundancy before individual staff knew whether their jobs would be among the 170 academic positions to disappear. Kathryn speaks with a a Senior lecturer at AUT with more than 20 years experience who is one of 170 staff made redundant,
