Casualisation agreements between university and trade unions, and implementation
Dear University College London,
I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information act, information about casualisation.
Please could you provide the following:
(1) A copy of any agreements between the university and trade unions concerning casualisation, i.e. the use of fixed-term contracts, zero-hours contracts or similar contracts.
(2) The dates any such agreements were reached.
(3) Annual statistics regarding the number of staff employed on fixed-term contracts, dating from before any agreements mentioned in (1) to the present day. If no such agreements exist, then please provide annual statistics for the last five years.
(4) Annual statistics as in (3) regarding the number of staff employed on zero-hours contracts (if possible separated into postgraduate students who are also employed by the university, and other staff employed on zero-hours contracts).
(5) Minutes of meetings between the university and trade unions at which progress of implementation of the agreements mentioned in (1) were discussed.
Yours faithfully,
Francis Higgs
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Dear University College London,
I have not received a response to this request, could you please update me on its progress?
Yours faithfully,
Francis Higgs
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Dear Mr Higgs,
We are aware that you are waiting for our response to your request for information FOI 023 - 169 and wanted to apologise for the delay. We wanted to assure you that we are continuing to work on your request and we hope to provide a final response to you as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Handan
Handan Er
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser
University College London
Legal Services
E:[email address]; Data Protection: [email address]; FOI: [UCL request email].
Office phone: +44 (0)203 108 4277 (internal extension: 54277);
Dear Mr Higgs,
Thank you for your request and we apologise for the delay in responding.
We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request.
We can confirm that we do hold some information of the description
specified in your request and this information where it is held, is
provided below.
Your request and our response
(1) A copy of any agreements between the university and trade unions
concerning casualisation, i.e. the use of fixed-term contracts, zero-hours
contracts or similar contracts.
(2) The dates any such agreements were reached.
We do not have any such agreements.
(3) Annual statistics regarding the number of staff employed on fixed-term
contracts, dating from before any agreements mentioned in (1) to the
present day. If no such agreements exist, then please provide annual
statistics for the last five years.
YEAR NUM_STAFF
2018 827
2019 894
2020 786
2021 1,726
2022 1,863
(4) Annual statistics as in (3) regarding the number of staff employed on
zero-hours contracts (if possible separated into postgraduate students who
are also employed by the university, and other staff employed on
zero-hours contracts).
We do not currently and did not at the start of the 2018/2019 academic
year, employ any staff on zero-hours contracts. UCL does however use As
and When contracts to engage workers. For more information on the
contracts used at UCL, please see the following webpage:
[1]https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/gu...
(5) Minutes of meetings between the university and trade unions at which
progress of implementation of the agreements mentioned in (1) were
discussed.
We do not have any such agreements.
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Kind regards,
Handan
Handan Er
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser
University College London
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[6][UCL request email].
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