The University has ceased HTBN (Hours To Be Notified) contracts under the Enhancing Employment programme of work. HTBN employees have been moved, predominantly, onto Guaranteed Hours contracts. Other atypical alternative employment arrangements are used in the University, eg Annualised Hours, although are not widely used, potentially because administrative processes and systems are not in place to support them.

There is a large administrative overhead for the management and reporting on the GH contracts in the devolved HR teams and business areas, created in part by the manual nature of the process.  The UHRS Systems team is also impacted by the inability of devolved areas to access the information they require and by the challenges of current reporting capacity.

This Enhancing Employment Analysis project, HRS084, will identify all GH employment arrangements, and articulate the business processes for managing them. This will be achieved by consulting key stakeholders.

HRS084 is a pre-requisite for the Technical Implementation project planned to start in 15/16 which will deliver a solution for the management of and reporting on Guaranteed Hours contract.

The benefits of HRS084 will be realised on completion of the technical implementation project.