With the increase in paid officers and association staff in colleges over the past year, a number of regions have raised the need for effective guidance on HR and employment.
We are have therefore run three scoping events during early June 2014 in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling, to ensure the guidance being developed meets the needs of colleges and takes into account the variations between different colleges and students’ associations.
We have engaged a Business Law Firm to explore and clarify the issues around sabbatical officers’ employment status, and the employment of students’ association staff. We envisage the outcome of this piece of work will include guidance and example models.
The 2-hour scoping events were aimed at:
- student officers
- association staff
- college staff
- college HR staff
We particularly encouraged HR staff to attend to offer them the opportunity to learn more about the unique complexities of students’ association HR, and ensure that the resulting guidance takes into account college HR practices.
The guidance will be published in due course. If you have any questions please contact Kate Byford, Partnerships for Change Co-ordinator:
