From the ground…

I have refused external PhD examining in UK – and refused to do reviewing submitted papers for journals. I have cut out the circle/UCU from the ‘I’m working to contract’ poster and stuck it on the rear car window. I’ll put the poster in the front window at home. I am refusing to go to meetings whenever possible.

(email footer reads: We ask University employers to negotiate, not impose, pension changes…)

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Can I refuse to undertake cover work for which I have no expertise or which is not mentioned in my contract?

Yes. A recent Employment Appeals Tribunal case looked at whether someone who had been engaged as a lecturer in Theatre Studies could be asked to undertake teaching on an English course.  It found that ‘a management instruction [like this] to carry out duties which the Appellant was not contractually obliged to perform is unlikely to be reasonable.’

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1 comment to Can I refuse to undertake cover work for which I have no expertise or which is not mentioned in my contract?

  • Graham Fisher
    J September 2012 at 10:20 am · Reply

    Staff at the FE College are being asked (virtually forced) to undertake the teaching of classes which are not within their specialism for example; someone teaching Health & Safety without any knowledge, training or any other support.
    This is not their speialist area and this is a specilised.
    Can the employee refuse?




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