Creating A Two Tier Workforce:

Edinburgh's Telford College Principalships agreement with protocol National has negative consequences for all temporary staff previously employed directly by the College. They have been forced to register with the agency in order to continue to have any employment with the college. This means:

• Accepting a cut in take home pay
• Exclusion from the pension scheme

The college has created a two tier workforce but now claims that “ Protocol National is simply an alternative way to manage the existing situation”


THIS STATEMENT IS ENTIRELY MISLEADING:

• Permanent employees at the College receive superannuation contributions from the College, Temporary Lecturers sourced through Protocol National have to make their own pension arrangements.

• Permanent employees at the College are covered by the College’s professional indemnity insurance scheme. Temporary lecturers sourced through Protocol National have to take out their own personal indemnity insurance.

• Permanent employees at the college have their disclosure checks paid for by the College. Temporary lecturers sourced through Protocol National have to pay for their own disclosure checks.

• Permanent employees at the College have access to the full range of CPD, training and development opportunities. Temporary Lecturers sourced through \protocol National do not.

• Permanent employees at the College have full negotiating rights covering pay and conditions. Temporary Lecturers sourced through Protocol national do not.


THAT IS A TWO TIER WORKFORCE.

It will also damage the quality of learning experience available to the students at the College. College management must explain how demoralising the lecturing staff and diminishing their terms and conditions will lead to “an improved student experience”.

Management at the College has embarked on a course of action designed to destroy the employment relationship with their temporary staff and to take temporary employees outwith the scope of existing employment rights and pension provision.

The EIS is committed to supporting this campaign of industrial action to ensure fair and equal treatment for all lecturing staff.