ANU asks staff to give up agreed pay rise to help reach $250m cost cuts

Unions plan to rally members after vice chancellor Prof Genevieve Bell requests forgoing 2.5% December increase

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The Australian National University is asking staff to forgo an agreed pay rise - a request the union says will do nothing to stave off a potential 638 job cuts and only reveals the chancellery's complete mismanagement and delusion".

The vice chancellor of ANU, Prof Genevieve Bell, sent an email to all university staff on Tuesday which asked them to consider forgoing the upcoming 2.5% December pay increase under the ANU enterprise agreement [EA]".