National agreements and legal rights
29 October 2008
Extract from: Organising part-time and hourly-paid lecturers - A further education toolkit
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Organising part-time and hourly-paid lecturers - An FE toolkit
National agreements
In further education, the national employers organisation (the Association of Colleges) has signed up two key documents:
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Guidelines for the employment of part-time employees in FE (England), Apr 08 [73kb] -
Guidelines for the employment of fixed-term employees in FE (England), Apr 08 [80kb]
UCU branches should ensure their employers implement the national agreements by negotiating a local agreement based on it. To this end,