UCU: Improving the job security of part-time hourly paid (PTHP)

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes that in further education, we have a full-time and part-time salaried academic workforce and a pool of part-time hourly paid staff (PTHP). Traditionally PTHP was the starting point of a career, leading to part-time and full-time permanent contracts.
Conference also notes that progression from PTHP to salaried staff is not guaranteed and varies from college to college with PTHP staff facing insecurity of tenure and difficulties in getting mortgages, planning for retirement, etc.
With this in mind, we ask that FEC co-ordinates a campaign to create a common UK framework for transition from PTHP to full-time/part-time for those staff wishing to do so.