Casualisation agreements between university and trade unions, and implementation
Dear University of Edinburgh,
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 Francis Higgs
Thank you for your email of 15th March requesting information. I am
writing to let you know that we have received your request and will
process it as soon as reasonably possible, and within 20 working days of
the day we received the request. We will reply by 13th April.
The [1]University of Edinburgh's request privacy notice, which describes
how we use the information you have supplied about yourself and your
request, is published on the University website.
Yours sincerely
Jennifer Brown
Records Management
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Dear Francis Higgs
Thank you for your email of 15 March requesting information. Please find
the University's response attached.
Yours sincerely
Jennifer Brown
Records Management Section
University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL
[1]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management
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