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Dear Francis,

FOI ref: FOI-00263

Further to your email below, I am now in a position to respond to your
request dated: 15/03/23

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within
Manchester Metropolitan University (the University) to locate the
requested information, and I can confirm that the information requested is
held by the University.

Please find below/attached the information held currently in the
categories you have requested:

(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.
The University did not reach agreement with UCU, therefore an agreement
was never formalised and co-signed.

(2) The dates any such agreements were reached.
N/a- please see answer to question 1.

(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.
Please see data below of number of fixed term contracts across the whole
of the University (not just academic) as at the 1^st September in each of
the years since 2018.

┌──────────────────┬───────────────────┬────────────────────┐
│ Year │No of FTC │% Workforce │
├──────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────────┤
│ 2018 │ 432 │ 11.0% │
├──────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────────┤
│ 2019 │ 494 │ 12.1% │
├──────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────────┤
│ 2020 │ 527 │ 12.4% │
├──────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────────┤
│ 2021 │ 447 │ 10.9% │
└──────────────────┴───────────────────┴────────────────────┘

(4) Annual statistics as in (3) regarding the number of staff employed on
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(5) Minutes of meetings between the university and trade unions at which
progress of implementation of the agreements mentioned in (1) were
discussed.
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From: Francis Higgs <[FOI #960428 email]>
Sent: 15 March 2023 11:55
To: FOI <[Manchester Metropolitan University request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Casualisation agreements between
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Dear Manchester Metropolitan University,

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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