MH: You've proposed an initiative to make the NASA administrator a fixed term, right?
And there are other examples: the outlawing of discrimination based on being a part-time, or fixed-term worker, the right to rest breaks, paid holiday, and leave for working parents all derive from EU directives.
"The unions have good reason to see this as a very good way to increase their influence in the workplace," says Ruth Lea, head of the policy unit at the Institute of Directors.Other European-inspired legislation has given part-time and fixed-term contract workers the right to be treated as favourably as comparable full-time employees.
The result is a "two-tiered system of faculty" in which fixed-term faculty have no right to tenure, and can continue for up to 20 years with their salaries dependent on grants.
Introduces fixed-term parliaments, gives voters the right to recall MPs found guilty of serious wrongdoing and sets up a referendum on the alternative vote system.
Councils will be able to offer new social housing tenants shorter, fixed-term tenancies - ending the right to a council house for life.
Removing redundancy rights from fixed-term contract staff would create more job and financial insecurity for temporary staff and reduce their chances of redeployment.
"Removing consultation rights from fixed-term contract staff will seriously increase job and financial insecurity for vulnerable groups of workers, and temporary staff will lose out on redeployment opportunities".
On a fixed-term contract you naturally have rights that are only fair and reasonable--but will they be honoured?
The business secretary, Vince Cable, has proposed that those on zero-hours contracts should have the right to request a fixed-term contract.
The majority of candidates responding to the election web initiative Demref 2010 call for the introduction of fixed-term parliaments, which would abolish the traditional right of the PM to set the date.
