Labour Relations

The coordination of labour relations aims to improve staff management, both within the public university and as a whole, to facilitate and promote inter-university mobility, to share a career development model for each of the different groups and to establish common labour standards.

The framework of relations of public universities is structured at different levels. On one hand, the Mesa d’Universitats, which is the negotiating framework of the aspects common to all universities staff (salaries, social activity, complementary pension plans and union and participation rights). On the other hand, there are four instances for collective bargaining on working conditions for different groups of staff serving at Catalan public universities: teaching and research staff, and administrative and service staff. Collective bargaining is a function of their relationship as civil servants or salaried workers. In this latest framework, the current labour agreements with Administrative and Service Staff as well as with Teaching and Research Staff throughout the public universities of Catalonia have already expired. An initial agreement on conditions of work for Civil Servant Administrative and Service Staff is currently being negotiated.

Common Staff Policies

The coordination of the labour relations area will define an authentic labour environment for all the Catalan public universities