fixed term contracts
1. Guidelines and Criteria for the Use of Fixed Term Contracts
- Fixed Term Contracts: Information regarding criteria http://www.shef.ac.uk/hr/info/policy/ftccriteria.html
- Fixed Term Contracts: Information for Managers http://www.shef.ac.uk/hr/info/policy/red&red/supinfo.html
2. Other information
- AUT notes on Fixed-term regulations
- JNCHES Fixed-Term and Casual Employment Guidance for Higher Education Institutions
- AUT Model Agreement
- SAUT local presentation notes
- Thompsons Solicitors notes
3. New stuff
- replacing ../ftcs.html
- PPTs from Jane, andrew
- main UCU links
- programme
- the main point is that research is already here as a career, but the terms and conditions have to catch up
- make all contracts open-ended, at least after 2 years service (this doesn't make people secure, of course, but shifts the culture from dispensable object to staff member on soft money)
- buffer funds
- set up a small internal overheads-based (like bristol?) buffer fund for contract carry-overs
- make representations to UKRCs about how to make the buffer fund a structural part of the funding scene (in order to increase the size of the fund)
- andrew:
- I still think we should be asking the fundamental questions:
- What are the best conditions in which to carry out research? How can
- employment be managed in order to achieve these conditions?
- make representations to RCUK to
- make it easier for CRs to be fund-holders in their own right. True, they're no longer barred from applying, but project applicants are judged on their past experience of managing projects
- include contract researchers on project review panels.
- I still think we should be asking the fundamental questions:
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