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This week Union and University representatives met to discuss elements of the joint agreement of 8 June 2022. 

This past fortnight we have held 5 meetings between union and University representatives who have discussed the following workstream areas:

• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion 
• Pay and Fixed Term Contracts
• Doctoral Tutors’ Contracts
• Workload
• Post-6pm Teaching
• Living Wage

We are pleased to report that we have made progress in the following areas:

• Additional meetings have taken place to obtain specific information where required at a School or HR level
• Modelling has commencing around costing the above joint agreement elements where relevant

The next steps are to:

• Hold the next meetings across all workstreams and conduct financial modelling where applicable during week commencing 1 August and week commencing 8 August. We then hope to make further progress on the above-mentioned elements.

If you have any questions you should speak to your line manager in the first instance.

The next update is due to be published on 5 August 2022.

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