The National Framework Agreement - Birkbeck College Local Agreement

As you will be aware, the College has been working very closely with representatives from the trade unions to determine the details of the National Framework Agreement (NFA) for implementation at Birkbeck, in the form of the Framework Negotiation Group (FNG). As part of the NFA, UCU (then AUT) nationally agreed a form of words to support the key areas of the NFA; this is the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) (see here, UCEA website). This essentially provides for Academic, Academic Related, and Research staff to be protected from suffering any ‘detriment’ to their pay on moving to the new pay arrangements.

We can confirm that the FNG has now reached agreement on the key areas of the NFA, which also meets the requirements of the MOU as negotiated with UCU locally. In addition, the College is extending the principle of the MOU to all other staff groups to ensure equity and fairness across all staff.

The full Birkbeck Local Agreement can be found here.

The Birkbeck Local Agreement document sets out a summary of those key agreements, together with relevant supporting information. Please refer here (UCEA website) for the full NFA itself.  The FNG is discussing the detail of the information that will go out to staff at the point of implementation.

The three trade unions will now carry out their own consultation and/or balloting procedures amongst their members; if you are a member you will hear from your union in due course with the details of the ballot and instructions on what you need to do to comment/vote on this package.

This website is intended to inform you about the project and to provide you with updates on progress.  In addition, key project documents are available for you to read and download.

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