Motion
- Motion title
- Contracts for services in the FE sector
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- FE conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2009
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- FE20
- Motion text
FESC notes the important legal distinctions between 'employees' and 'workers' under EU and UK law, and that some employers in the FE sector use 'contracts for services' to define staff as workers rather than employees. This is used to maintain a casualised workforce and to justify unequal treatment, including denial of the rights to redundancy consultation and pay.
FESC calls on FEC to:
1. oppose the use of contracts for services for staff in adult and community education, and elsewhere in the sector
2. seek contracts of employment for members on contracts for services
3. seek equal treatment for members on contracts for services, including equal access to the Teachers' Pension Scheme.
- Proposing body
- Anti-casualisation committee (ACC)
- Amended
- Yes
- Allocated to
- Further education committee (FEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/F/05-28/074/FE20