Motion
- Motion title
- Agency workers
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 29 May 2009
- Status
- Passed unanimously
- Motion
- 82
- Motion text
Congress deplores the exploitation of agency workers in education. It calls on the NEC to work vigorously for:
1 the implementation of the European Agency Workers' Directive into UK law, in a way that fully covers agency workers in FE and HE, specifically challenging the 12 week rule;
2 acceptance in our sectors that agency workers (including, for example, researchers in HE and lecturers in FE) receive the same terms and conditions, including pay, as directly employed staff, bringing them in line with local and national bargaining agreements;
3 UCU branches to represent, and be recognised as representing, agency workers in their institution who are members, by specifically challenging the false notion of self employment;
4 equal access for agency workers to occupational pension schemes;
5 an accumulation of data on the growth of employment agencies in our sector, with which to inform our future policies.
- Proposing body
- Anti-casualisation committee (ACC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Recruitment, organising and campaigning committee (ROCC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/C/05-29/161/82