Dear Francis

Freedom of Information request reference L/23/103

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

The University of Leeds aims to respond to all FOI requests within 20-working days of receipt. If this timeframe changes, I will write to provide you with an update.

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Regards

Freedom of Information Officer

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Dear Francis

Freedom of Information - Request for Clarification (Our Ref: L/23/103)

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

The University of Leeds may hold some information relevant to your request. However, we are unable to proceed with your request without further clarification.

Section 1(3) of the FOI Act states that where a public authority reasonably requires further information in order to identify and locate the information requested, and has informed the applicant of that requirement, the authority is not obliged to comply with subsection (1) unless it is supplied with that further information.

Please clarify the following:

Please can you provide the date range you are interested in for Question 1. This will enable us to focus our search and also help us to calculate the time required to source and extract the information for the questions that follow.

Please send your clarified request to [University of Leeds request email]. Please note that as per the Information Commissioner's Office guidance, the 20-working day timeframe will commence the next working day following receipt of the clarified request.

Sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
University of Leeds

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Dear Francis

Freedom of Information - Partial Response (Our Ref: L/23/103)

Thank you for your Freedom of Information ('FOI') request, reference L/23/103.

The University of Leeds holds some of this information.

Your request read:

"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.

Regarding Questions 1 and 2. No information is currently held. However, at the University we are committed to the employment security of our staff. As part of this commitment, and in discussion with our Trade Unions, we are undertaking a programme to review employment terms, prioritising those for staff on fixed term roles. This includes reviewing the reasons for which we would use fixed term contracts, and also a commitment that we will transfer staff to an ongoing contract at the point they receive a further substantive contract after they have reached 2 years' service. Discussions to finalise underpinning arrangements are taking place with Trade Unions now.

(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.

The University HR Data team are currently sourcing this information and this will be provided to you as soon as possible.

(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).

No staff are 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. "

Information not held.

We hope this information is helpful. If you have any questions about this email, however, please do not hesitate to contact us on [University of Leeds request email]

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Sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
University of Leeds

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Dear Francis

Further to our email below, please find the requested information for Q3.

Contract 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Fixed-term 1889 1994 1850 1824 1720
Ongoing 6990 7308 7389 7428 8013
Total 8879 9302 9239 9252 9733

Sincerely

Freedom of Information Officer

University of Leeds

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