UCU: Hourly paid staff

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes a small but growing number of successes in forcing the regularisation of contracts of hourly paid staff in both FE and HE. Casualisation can be reversed but it requires a serious campaign by the UCU.

Salary losses have been found in:
* calculating actual working hours,
* paying staff on scale points,
* implementing national pay awards,
* incrementing salary points, and
* paying holiday pay entitlements.

Conference recognises that cuts in per-student funding and privatisation increase pressures in the direction of further casualisation. The danger is of a race to the bottom where lecturers on employment contracts are replaced by hourly paid staff on poorly regulated contracts, including those described as 'self employed'.
Conference welcomes the work of the Fixed Term and Hourly Paid Committee and resolves to strengthen support for branches at a regional and national level to ensure that lessons are learned and successes generalised.