RMIT University to cut 355 more jobs

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The move to approve hundreds of voluntary redundancy applications comes after hundreds of the university's research and professional casual staff were let go in April.

An RMIT spokesperson said the measures would save $48 million.

"We are committed to supporting our impacted people and will work with our leadership teams to manage workloads and prioritise our activities over the coming weeks and months." "I've got colleagues who are terrified. The fear is really starting to come in now, we've got no idea what's happening." "It is devastating to lose 355 jobs from RMIT and it comes on top of many hundreds of casual jobs that have already been slashed," she said."It has blithely refused to craft a rescue package as the sector confronts its worst-ever crisis. It has also bent over backwards to exclude universities from JobKeeper.

 

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Hey maybe now they can sell off all that unused multi-million dollar properties all over the city?

RMIT have made Billion$ in cash, shares and blue chip properties over the last three decades and now sacking their workers.......how do you work that out?

That’s about 135,000 per person

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