The College of Sussex is reportedly trying to put off a philosophy lecturer whereas on the identical time promoting a brand new place to show the exact same programs he does.
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Sussex has declared James Furner “redundant“. According to the the Sussex University and College Union (UCU), “Sussex’s Redundancy Process permits for a redundancy if ‘the College’s requirement/s for members of workers to hold out work of a selected sort’ is/are ‘anticipated to stop or diminish’.” But on the identical time, the college is promoting to fill a brand new place, and “the one actions described within the advert for the brand new submit as ‘anticipated’ are the 4 UG modules that James convenes.”
Furner had been employed on a “poorly paid” and part-time foundation, in accordance with the UCU, whereas the brand new place is a full-time submit, however the duties of every place look like the identical.
Sussex UCU Department President, Jo Pawlik, says:
This choice flies within the face of the progress on anti-casualisation that we’ve got been making with our employer at Sussex over the past 12 months: it’s as baffling as it’s enraging. Refusing this present worker job safety continues the sample within the sector of treating educational workers as if they’re expendable. It’s irreconcilable with the College’s ambition to be an employer of selection.
The UCU notes that Furner’s present employment ends on the finish of this month, and encourages those that object to the administration’s plans to contact Vice-Chancellor Sasha Roseneil ([email protected]) and HR Director Colin Shipp ([email protected]) to “ask them to halt this unprincipled and wrongful choice, which can set a horrible precedent for a way Sussex College and the Division of Philosophy deal with its workers.”
You may learn extra concerning the case here.
