Professor Don Barry:

They are still employees of the university. They have been suspended on full pay. A lot will depend on the view taken by the Workplace Relations Commission. The disciplinary process has to do two things. It has to make a judgment on the validity or otherwise of the finding of the investigation and it has to decide what action the university should take if it upholds the finding of the investigator. That is the process involved. There are a range of possible actions the university could take against persons B and C if the disciplinary process finds them guilty of the accusation.