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Motion

Motion title
Policy proposal to protect immunocompromised staff in post-16 education
Meeting date
1 June 2022
Motion
29
Motion text

Congress notes:
1. The risks of Covid19 and other severe infections persist in universities and colleges: this will continue for many years.
2. Clinically vulnerable/disabled/pregnant and other immunocompromised colleagues are being pressurised to return to workplaces and conduct face-to-face teaching in unsafe spaces without windows, adequate ventilation, air-purifying systems, and/or in locations where students often decline to wear masks voluntarily.
Congress resolves to demand that:
a. a UK-wide policy be proposed for all universities and colleges which protects clinically vulnerable/disabled/pregnant and immunocompromised staff
b. the policy guarantee staff the right to work from home, and teach all material online where clinically vulnerable/disabled/pregnant and other immunocompromise is confirmed by their medical practitioner
c. this UK-wide policy is included in definitions of 'reasonable adjustment' for staff who identify as disabled
Congress agrees:
i. UCU will lobby Governments and university management to collectively formulate this policy as described and report progress back to Congress in 2023.

Proposing body
Bournemouth University
Amended
No
Notes

Administrative info

Listing reference
2022/C/06-01/069/29