UCU: Action in light of potential redundancies

Motion

Motion text: This conference reaffirms UCU's opposition to compulsory redundancies, in all their forms, within Higher Education.
It does however, recognise that the environment in which redundancies are considered has changed over the past few years due to, amongst other things:
increasingly hostile approaches by employers to staffing;
the advent of the Fixed Term Employee Regulations;
changes to pension rules;
the Age Discrimination Regulations and
changes to model employment statutes in chartered institutions.
This conference therefore instructs the HEC to:
Review UCU policy on redundancies of all kinds;
To make recommendations to strengthen policy;
To develop guidance and resources for branches and regional offices to assist them in campaigning and negotiating against redundancies.