UCU: Zero hours contracts and hourly paid staff

Motion

Motion text: This conference notes with great concern that, as has become clear during congress, an increasing number of university managements are seeking to assimilate hourly paid staff under the Framework Agreement via permanent zero hours contracts or similar (staff development only), sometimes called 'bank' contracts.
We call on the HEC to:
set up, as a matter of urgency, a signing-off procedure for agreements on hourly paid staff
make it known that contract are unacceptable where:
hours are reducible to zero with no access to statutory redundancy rights
hours are variable downwards by any percentage with no agreement on a standard redundancy procedure
there is non-employee status
provide support to Las/branches faced with these proposals
produce guidelines with good models
name and shame employers who continue to seek to impose such contracts.