Motion
- Motion title
- Contracts for services/as and when
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2009
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE21
- Motion text
Conference notes the important legal distinctions between 'employees' and 'workers' under EU and UK law, and that some HE employers use 'contracts for services' or 'as and when' contracts to define staff as workers rather than employees. This is used to deny rights to redundancy consultation and pay, to maintain a casualised workforce, and to attempt to justify other inequalities; eg. in pension provision.
Conference calls on HEC to:
oppose the use of contracts for services for academic and related staff
seek equal treatment and contracts of employment for members on contracts for services seek assimilation for hourly paid staff on contracts for services under the Framework Agreement
oppose attempts by employers to refuse assimilation under the Framework Agreement (or even continued work when others are assimilated) on the basis of having issued contracts for services.
- Proposing body
- Composite
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/H/05-28/097/HE21