UCU: Development of workload model template

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes and shares the concern of the Health and Safety Executive that work-related stress will continue to rise in the HE sector unless something is done about it. Conference encourages HSE to use its powers of enforcement where there has been a contravention of statutory legislation. However, Conference believes this would not be necessary in a well-managed work environment where staff are protected from undue stress and supported in avoiding or managing stress. Conference believes contractual protection is required and that negotiated workload agreements, to a national template, should be in place in all HE institutions.

Conference calls on the National Executive
(i) to develop and disseminate such a template;
(ii) to negotiate nationally with UCEA on minimum implementation standards;
(iii) to support local negotiators in their efforts to agree local workload models where no national contract exists