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Motion

Motion title
Downgrading and casualisation
Meeting date
2 June 2022
Motion
HE19
Motion text

Conference notes that:
1. There are many instances of downgrading of academic-related and professional services posts as a result of university restructures
2. The increasing number of fixed-term or contract posts for academic-related and professional services staff (c.⅓ of currently advertised posts on jobs.ac.uk are fixed term or contract).
3. The gender and ethnicity pay gaps are worsened by the situation above at a time when we are trying to close them.
Conference believes that:
a. ARPS staff deserve appropriate remuneration and contracts for the contribution that they make to university business.
b. Fixed term and contract posts should only be used in exceptional circumstances.
Conference resolves to:
i. Work with the Anti-Casualisation Committee to learn from their campaigns and successes.
ii. Use existing data from the recent ARPS survey to assess the extent of the issue.
iii. Set up a central portal for logging data, working with branches to enable this.
iv. Provide training on job evaluation systems

Proposing body
Academic-related, professional services staff committee (ARPS)
Amended
No
Notes

Administrative info

Listing reference
2022/H/06-02/129/HE19