Management Claims

Management provided their log of claims to the bargaining team on 24/3/26.

The University seeks a single Enterprise Agreement to be titled The University of Queensland Enterprise Agreement 2026 (Agreement). The University intends that the Agreement will deliver fair, transparent, and straightforward employment conditions that uphold employee interests while aligning with operational needs and regulatory obligations. The University’s claims include but are not limited to

• Develop an agreement that will operate for four years, providing certainty on fair and periodic salary increases that are sustainable and equitable.

• Build on existing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander terms and conditions in accordance with the 2025-2027 UQ Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan and Employment Strategy

• Improve and expand Teaching Associate provisions, including those relating to pay arrangements, leave scheduling and career pathways.

• Provide professional staff with clearer, more consistent, and equitable employment arrangements by rationalising and simplifying provisions relating to occupational categories, span of hours, allowances, and hours of work.

• Improve flexible work arrangements for professional staff by simplifying existing provisions and make entitlements easier to understand and manage.

• Reduce the psychosocial impacts of organisational change by clarifying processes and ensuring consultation is proportionate to the scale of the proposed change.

• Provide clarity and consistency for casual academic staff by standardising provisions for student consultation and marking.

• Improve safety, confidence, and timely outcomes by strengthening misconduct and serious misconduct provisions, ensuring alignment with the Code for Gender-Based Violence for Universities.

• Improve clarity and accessibility of staff entitlements by reducing the number of policies referenced in the Agreement and removing duplication and inconsistency between the Agreement and policies.

• Improve access to secure employment opportunities by expanding eligibility for Research (Contingent Funded) Employment for fixed-term staff supported by external funding.

• Enhance access to flexible pay and entitlement arrangements by aligning Individual Flexibility Agreement provisions with the Modern Awards.

• Improve fairness and equity in excess leave arrangements by ensuring provisions appropriately account for both full-time and part-time staff.

• Review coverage arrangements and simplify common terms and conditions for professional and academic staff.

Further Claims

The University reserves the right to make further claims, including other matters arising from bargaining and/or from engagement with the University community.

Costing of Claims

All claims are to be fully costed before they are included in any proposed new Enterprise Agreement.