{"id":95,"date":"2011-10-03T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/?p=95"},"modified":"2011-10-03T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T08:39:15","slug":"action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/2011\/10\/03\/action\/","title":{"rendered":"UCU Industrial Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University and College Union have issued the College with a notice of Industrial Action.\u00a0 This is a national union campaign.\u00a0 The notice indicates this action relates to the \u2018proposed detrimental changes to USS and retaining comparable pension benefits\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 The changes to USS are no longer proposed changes and have been implemented with effect from\u00a0 1 October 2011.\u00a0 See\u00a0Pensions and Industrial Action <\/a>for the full background.<\/p>\n

The action will commence from 10 October 2011 and will be in the form of \u2018action short of a strike\u2019.\u00a0 UCU have therefore advised their members to abide by the terms of their contracts (including their obligation to perform their duties in an efficient manner) but to do no more than that; and in particular to:<\/p>\n

(a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Work no more than their contracted hours where those hours are expressly stated and in any event not to exceed the maximum hours stipulated by the Working Time Regulations (unless there has been an individual opt-out);<\/p>\n

(b)\u00a0\u00a0 Perform no additional voluntary duties, such as out of hours cover, or covering for colleagues (unless such cover is contractually required);<\/p>\n

(c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Set and mark no work beyond that work which they are contractually obliged to set and\/or mark;<\/p>\n

(d)\u00a0\u00a0 Attend no meetings where such attendance is voluntary on the part of the member.<\/p>\n

The hours of work for all those represented by UCU are \u2018as required for the reasonable performance of the role\u2019.\u00a0 There is also a contractual expectation of flexibility within the remit of the role and grade.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The College does not accept partial performance of a role.\u00a0 Therefore, where a member of staff declines to participate in an activity that his \/ her line manager considers to be part of the normal requirements for the role, pay will be withheld in full.\u00a0 Further information will be provided to any member of staff who wishes to take industrial action.<\/p>\n

For further information contact the Director of HR, Louise Lindsay at: directorofhr@imperial.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University and College Union have issued the College with a notice of Industrial Action.\u00a0 This is a national union campaign.\u00a0 The notice indicates this action relates to the \u2018proposed detrimental changes to USS and retaining comparable pension benefits\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 The changes to USS are no longer proposed changes and have been implemented with effect from\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4323,4324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-hr-information","category-pensions-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/hr-notices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}