Motion
- Motion title
- Pension provision for casualised staff
- Session
- 2010-2011
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2011
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE35
- Motion text
HESC notes that the UK government is encouraging people to invest in pensions at an early age.
Casualised HE staff comprise a significant proportion of early-career researchers, teachers and academic related staff and a disproportionately high number of women staff.
Universities have inconsistent policies. Whilst the Open University allows Associate Lecturers to join USS, other pre-92 universities do not afford this facility to all their casualised employees, even though they should be eligible under USS pension scheme rules.
HESC asserts that:
all staff in hourly paid, pro rata, fixed term, or variable time posts should be able to join any pension scheme for which these posts are eligible.
where staff hold multiple posts in academic and non-academic capacities at the same university, they should be allowed to join TPS or USS concurrently with other pension schemes
universities should provide the same pension information to all new staff, whether in casualised posts or permanently-contracted.
- Proposing body
- Anti-casualisation committee (ACC)
- Amended
- Yes
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2011/H/05-28/079/HE35