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30 April 2014
New figures released today show that employers in Britain are using about 1.4m 'zero-hours' contracts The figures , from the Office for National Statistics, show…
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15 April 2014
Cardiff Metropolitan University is under fire for imposing a bizarre new contract on its professors which includes a clause stating that they may be prevented from…
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31 March 2014
Members of the 51¸£Àû at Lambeth College will be on strike on 1 April in a row over proposed changes to terms and conditions. The strike comes after a massive 95%…
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25 March 2014
Members of 51¸£Àû at Lambeth College will be on strike next Tuesday (1 April) in a row over proposed changes to terms and conditions. Yesterday the union revealed…
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24 March 2014
Members of 51¸£Àû at Lambeth College have overwhelmingly voted for strike action in a row over proposed changes to terms and conditions. A massive 95% of staff who…
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28 February 2014
Teaching and educational professionals are the group of workers most likely to be putting in unpaid overtime and clocking up the most free hours a week, according…
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19 December 2013
51¸£Àû said today that it would be contributing to a government consultation on zero-hours contracts. released earlier this year suggested that there could be around…
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21 October 2013
Durham University has been asked to clarify whether or not it pays all its teaching staff after extracurricular classes being taught by unpaid volunteers in the…
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14 October 2013
51¸£Àû today warned that the extensive use of zero-hours contracts in Scottish universities was bad for lecturers and bad for students. The union has submitted evidence…
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18 September 2013
Agreement has been reached between 51¸£Àû, the University of Liverpool and ACAS, in a row brought about by the university's proposal to dismiss 769 staff and rehire…
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