This page covers issues relating to part-time contracts for demonstrators, instructors, tutors, teachers and lecturers.
Issues around hourly paid and casual workers are complex and fast moving, so we cannot guarantee that the information on this page is completely up to date. If you have specific questions please contact ucu@sheffield.ac.uk.
See also our separate page for Post Graduate Students.
UCU’s aim is reduce the use of part-time hourly paid contracts in the University, and for all regular part-time staff to be employed on permanent fractional contracts on pro-rata pay and terms and conditions.
Use this employment status check list. If you are a Bank Worker teaching for the University of Sheffield and have taught both semesters each year this will help you find out whether or not you should have employee status. Use this template letter to request regularisation
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STATEMENT ON OUTCOMES OF SHEFFIELD UCU CLAIM ON CASUAL TEACHING Following over a year of negotiations, Sheffield UCU is pleased to announce a significant milestone in our ongoing campaign to improve terms and conditions for teaching staff. We have secured the following commitments from HR: 1. All planned, scheduled teaching will be delivered by staff […]
Fighting Against Casualisation in Education will be a conference on 7 February 2015, organised by activists involved in struggles around the country. We aim to bring casualised academic workers together, to discuss and organise for our fight for better labour conditions. Casualisation in education is a scandal. In HE, 33% of the labour force is on one sort […]
SUCU Lunchtime workshop: How do researchers and other casualised academics suffer from insecure contracts, and how do we cope with it? Wed May 7, 1-2pm TV Lounge, Octagon Centre, Western Bank S10 2TQ. May 7 is National UCU Anti-casualisation Day and to mark it we are inviting all Sheffield researchers and other casualised academics to […]