10 Things Sessional Staff Want

Check out the findings from the LTC’s Sessional Staff Forum. Here are 10 things sessional staff want:

1. Paid training opportunities
2. Academic mentoring
3. Commensurate remuneration and superannuation (to put it simply: sessional staff want to be paid for the hours they actually work)
4. Improved payroll processes
5. Lifting of working restrictions (e.g. limit of 8 working hours per week)
6. Access to infrastructure (e.g. office space) and teaching and learning resources
7. Job security
8. Transparent and fair recruitment processes
9. Better communication and access to information
10. Improved working conditions (e.g. management practices, workplace culture, support for staff with disabilities)

Do these match your experiences as a sessional staff member? Which of these do you consider the most important? What would you like to add to the list?

Read the full summary of the findings and more about the Sessional Staff Project. If you’d like to contribute your ideas, please contact Lucy Arthur via email: sessionalstaff[at]gmail.com.

This ‘1o things’ concept is borrowed from Tammi Jonas’ manifesto 10 things postgrads want presented at the State of the Industry conference in November last year.

Filed under: Sessional staff, Staff by Agnes Bosanquet