UCU: Anti-Casualisation toolkit and legal support

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. the success of Goldsmiths short course tutors in gaining worker status via a crowdfunded legal challenge;
2. the UCU toolkit ‘Challenging Discrimination: How to Build an Effective Case’.
Congress resolves:
a. to encourage members with potential anti-casualisation cases to seek UCU legal advice via their branches or local associations;
b. to invite feedback from members on how the UCU legal scheme might better support casualised members and anti-casualisation cases, especially collective and/or strategically significant cases;
c. to produce a toolkit on using legislation to challenge casualisation both individually and collectively, including:
i. an overview of the law on employment status and in relation to fixed-term, part-time and zero hours contracts, and
ii. practical and step-by-step advice on using our legal rights to challenge casualised employment practices (similar to that in the Discrimination Toolkit), including through the UCU legal scheme.