January 8, 2016 at 4:25 pm
MCAST Directive on Student Attendance document
The MUT would like to make reference to a very recent document issued by MCAST on Student Attendance. The Union would like to make it very clear that this document and its implications on lecturers, not to mention the academic implications, were never discussed with the MUT. The fact that this document was discussed within the COI is considered by the Union as having no relevance since common sense and industrial relations practices dictate that implications on working conditions need to be discussed in a two partite forum between the employer and employee representatives, not in a council which is 95% made up of management personnel.
Therefore, the Union, is directing all its members to ignore this document and stick to the practices before the issue of this document until such time as an agreement between the MUT and MCAST over the contents of this document and its implications is reached.
