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University salaries and stipends: Notice

24 July 2000

The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) have made an offer of a 3 per cent across-the-board increase in the salaries of all non-clinical academic and academic-related staff and assistant staff. The UCEA Board have indicated that this offer is in full and final settlement of the 2000-01 pay round and will not be reviewed. They have recommended to institutions that they consider implementing the pay award from the relevant implementation date for each staff group. This will be 1 April 2000 for all staff groups within the University, except for the CS and D Divisions of the assistant staff for whom the date will be 1 July 2000. In addition the UCEA Board have recommended the following:

(i) the removal of the bottom salary (point 5) on the national academic Lecturer A scale, taking the minimum salary point to £18,731 at 1 April 2000;
(ii) an additional increase on all scale points in the M Division and the CD rate of pay of 1 per cent, making a total increase of 4 per cent for this lower paid staff group.

The Council have agreed that an increase on the basis set out above should be made in all relevant stipends, associated payments, and salaries, subject to the outcome of further developments, if any, at national level in the terms of the offer.

The stipends of certain University offices require the approval of the Regent House. The Council are accordingly submitting a Grace (Grace 2, p. 1024) to the Regent House for the approval of a 3 per cent increase in these stipends. Subject to the approval of this Grace, it is expected that the corresponding increases in the stipends of those offices which do not require the approval of the University will be approved by the Council or the General Board, as appropriate, as will corresponding increases in the salaries of analogous unestablished staff. In the case of contract research staff and other staff supported on non-central funds, payment of the increase will be conditional on funds being available to meet the cost of the increase from the relevant funding source. The increase in the salaries of members of the assistant staff is not dependent on the approval of the Grace.

With regard to non-clinical academic and academic-related staff the details of implementation of the 2000-01 pay offer on stipends will be set out in the usual Joint Report of the Council and the Board early in the Michaelmas Term 2000. Consideration will be given in the preparation of that Report to the implications of the abolition of the bottom salary point of the national Lecturer Grade A scale for the Cambridge structure of non-clinical academic and academic-related stipends and salaries; any relevant recommendations will be included in the Report.

The revised salary scales for assistant staff are published on p. 1010.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 26 July 2000
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