The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has lost its application to appeal against a Fair Work Commission decision that found it had unfairly sacked an academic for not publishing enough research papers in peer-reviewed journals.
The Fair Work Commission in March found that Lucy Zhao was unfairly sacked from her job as a lecturer in the Finance Discipline Group in August last year for “unsatisfactory performance” after UTS decided she was not publishing enough articles in quality academic journals.
The Fair Work Commission full bench in a judgment published on Wednesday, by a majority of two to one, rejected the university’s request to appeal that decision, which had ordered that Dr Zhao be reinstated.
