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Christmas / New Year Deadlines

The Christmas / New Year holiday period is fast approaching - to optimise the effectiveness of your advertising and to ensure everyone gets paid correctly during this period, click through to find out about special deadlines for advertising and payroll for this time of the year.

Christmas 2008 Payroll Processing Calendar

Due to the annual close down for Christmas and New Year, the Themis Timekeeper approval times and Remuneration and Benefits internal paper cut-offs have been revised. The revised calendar (.pdf) is now available to download from the Payroll page.

Staff Wellbeing Program

The University of Melbourne Staff Wellbeing Program has started! The website brings together information about a range of wellbeing related activities - involving physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions of wellbeing - in and around the University of Melbourne. From this new website you will be able to:

Check out the list of current and upcoming events
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Enterprise Bargaining

The University commenced enterprise bargaining negotiations with the NTEU and other relevant unions on Tuesday 26th August. To find out more about enterprise bargaining visit our Enterprise Bargaining website.

Changes to the Salary Packaging of Laptop Computers

There have been changes concerning the FBT treatment of laptops and salary packaging announced in the 2008/09 Federal Budget. For further details, please see the relevant pages of our website.

Scholar Rescue Fund

The Institute for International Education’s (IIE) Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) provides fellowships for established scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. Applications for the fund are now being received.

2008 Calendar of Programs

Take a look at our 2008 Calendar of Programs to learn about staff development opportunities.