Motion
- Motion title
- National campaign to end casualisation and insecurity — enough is enough - Composite
- Session
- 2025-2026
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 29 May 2026
- Status
- Remitted (not taken)
- Motion
- 69
- Motion text
Congress notes:
1. a deepening crisis of precarious work across the UK, with hourly paid and research staff bearing greatest risk
2. institutions making redundancies, re engaging staff on inferior casualised contracts, eroding collective agreements, and potentially breaching statutory obligations under the Employment Rights Act 1996 and the Equality Act 2010
3. casualisation undermines pensions by lowering pay and reducing accrual; serious pension detriment is caused by fixed term contracts, rolled up pay, and widening equality gaps
4. casualisation is a cost shifting strategy undermining equality.
Congress believes that:
a. casualisation erodes equality initiatives and harms careers and lives
b. redundancy followed by re engagement on insecure contracts is unacceptable.
Congress resolves to:
i. develop test cases for legal and industrial action to challenge casualisation
ii. call for a high profile national campaign and parliamentary lobby to enforce employment law, abolish casualisation, and expose institutions engaging in sham practices
iii. pension justice and job security will be the main focus of the campaign
iv. call a BDM to escalate measures concerning job security and casualisation
v. call for a parliamentary debate to accelerate action on job security and casualisation
vi. instigate a shaming campaign (with member stories) of institutions relying on zero hour contracts and other casualised contract types
vii. end casualisation by promoting fractionalisation.
- Proposing body
- London Metropolitan University, University of Westminster
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Recruitment, organising and campaigning committee (ROCC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2026/C/05-29/056/69