SAVING BACON: Four Gold Coast TAFE chefs will be cooking to save their job after being forced into a MasterChef-style competition. Source: National Features
FOUR Gold Coast TAFE chefs have been forced into a MasterChef-style competition, with the one judged the worst to lose their job.
And adding to the nightmare, two of the chefs fear the assessment panel was not independent because one judge had worked with the other two cooks.
Gold Coast Institute of TAFE CEO Aaron Devine yesterday confirmed the four chefs were forced into the "practical cooking assessment" in front of a panel made up of an independent chef, senior educational manager and a human resources representative.
Even though the panel has given the name of the person for redundancy, it is now on hold after the Queensland Teachers Union stepped in.
Mr Devine said a reduction in enrolments had forced the institute to cut its cookery workforce from five teaching positions to three. One person had taken a voluntary redundancy.
He said he had been contacted by a union official several days after the elimination round cook-off, raising concerns from one of the chefs that the independent panellist had previously worked alongside two of the candidates.
Mr Devine would not release the names of any of those involved.
"The complaint indicated that the independent industry member of the selection panel had knowledge of some of the candidates being assessed," Mr Devine said.
"GCIT has put the selection process on hold to consider the complaint and as a result the consequent redundancies are also on hold.
"Should the complaint be upheld, GCIT will be undertaking a new selection process, either in part or in full."
The union's TAFE officer David Terauds said the chefs were required to demonstrate their cooking skills in front of the panel two weeks ago.
"A member that went through the process did raise concerns about the process," he said.
"If there has been an error of process, we'll call on the institute to remedy that so that all members of the team are treated fairly and equitably."
Mr Terauds expected to meet with TAFE representatives soon to discuss "the best option to move forward with the teaching team".
Industrial law expert Emma Thornton, from Maurice Blackburn, said employers were required to follow due process before terminating staff, and employees could seek advice about suspected wrongful dismissals. "If processes under the award or their work contract haven't been followed, then workers have clear rights," she said.
The cooking faculty is among several departments to have the axe taken to it, with Mr Terauds saying the Queensland system was among the "most underfunded" in Australia.
Already, 39 staff have been axed after a massive drop in overseas students left a $5 million funding shortfall.
Last month, 10 language teachers were made redundant, and Mr Devine flagged further cuts would happen in cooking and other trades affected by the drop in international students.
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