Motion
- Motion title
- Fair pay for all our labour
- Session
- 2021-2022
- Meeting link
- HE Conference
- Meeting date
- 2 June 2022
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE5
- Motion text
Conference notes:
1. The hugely differential, unregulated, and often inadequate, rates of pay for ad hoc labour in higher education, such as external examination, PhD examination, and guest lectures
2. The absence of centralised UCU guidance on pay for these kinds of labour, akin to nationally negotiated salary scales, despite various discussion papers over the years, such as to the 2010 Review of External Examining Arrangements
3. Grassroots resignations of external examiners in solidarity with recent industrial action
4. Attempts by some employers to move away from established quality assurance mechanisms such as external examining in an attempt to undermine solidarity actions
Conference resolves to:
a. Instruct HEC to develop centralised guidance on appropriate rates for the range of external and ad hoc roles that members undertake for universities
b. Develop this as a component of the next UK-wide JNCHES pay claim
- Proposing body
- University of Sheffield
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2022/H/06-02/114/HE5