Sentence examples for fixed-term staff from inspiring English sources

Be a continuing regular or fixed-term staff employee (including a bargaining unit employee).

This is hard to deny, but perhaps things would change if more fixed-term staff joined.

There will be a greater effort to "manage expectations," mainly through a more formalised appraisal process, to ensure that fixed-term staff are aware of the need to look elsewhere for their next step--and to protect CRUK if it is faced with claims of unfair dismissal.

* Source: Questionnaire response plus WHO Staff Directory includes temporary and fixed term staff and excludes interns collated May 2008.

Removing redundancy rights from fixed-term contract staff would create more job and financial insecurity for temporary staff and reduce their chances of redeployment.

They require that fixed-term contract staff have terms and conditions that are no less favourable than those of comparable staff on open-ended contracts.

"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".

According to the Association of University Teachers ( AUT), the proportion of research-only fixed-term contract staff in the United Kingdom aged 30 or more rose from 53% in 1995 to 63% in 2001.

"The level of awareness about the career importance of successful grant applications... seems to be very low among fixed-term contract staff," says Kynch. "They are marginalised from the main activities of departments and faculties.

The AUT has CRS and FNS (Fixed-term noncontract staff) committees which initiate and co-ordinate campaigns and respond to national developments that affect CRS, FNS, and hourly paid staff, such as changes in research council funding regulations, new legislation (e.g., Fixed-Term and Part-Time Work Regulations), and national negotiations with employers on Equal Opportunities and Casualisation.

The technology-transfer professionals that Next Wave spoke to all noted that since postdoctoral positions in the United Kingdom have been deemed "training" positions by law, universities and research institutes are now required to provide training for postdocs, as for other fixed-term contract staff.