UNE Academic and ELC Teaching Staff Collective Agreement 2014-2017
9 Commitments
- Academic and ELC Teaching Staff Collective Agreement 2014–2017
- The University and its employees are committed to:
- treating each other in a fair and reasonable manner and being accountable for their responsibilities;
- improving the performance, competitiveness and success of the University in order to achieve sustainable growth;
- a culture of mutual respect with consultation, participation, trust, flexibility, collegiality and continuing improvement;
- providing an inclusive workplace by preventing and eliminating discrimination, bullying and harassment in the workplace and achieving equal employment opportunity;
- enhancing flexibility and streamlining administrative processes;
- a flexible approach to change that reflects the demands in operational requirements;
- act in a manner consistent with the protection and promotion of intellectual freedom within the University where employees are able to:
- express opinions about issues and ideas related to their professional area of expertise and higher education issues; participate in public debates and debates relating to decision-making processes and express unpopular or controversial views, which do not defame, harass, vilify or intimidate;
- pursue critical and open academic inquiry;
- express their opinions in their private capacity as an individual member of society, not as a University spokesperson unless authorised to do so; and
- participate in professional and representative bodies, including Unions, and engage in community service without fear of harassment, intimidation or unfair treatment.
- Intellectual freedom carries with it the duty of employees to use the freedom in a reasonable manner consistent with a responsible and honest search for, and dissemination of, knowledge and truth.