Latest news

New International staff website now available (25 April 2013)

http://www.internationalstaff.ac.uk/  is a website which provides information to help new staff moving to UK Universities.  The site has been customised with local links,  including how to find accommodation and schools in the Oxford area as well as lots of information to help new starters settle into living and working in Oxford. We will be linking many webpages for new starters to this site in the coming weeks.

Change to grade 1 of the salary and grading structure to reflect the "Living Wage" (19 March 2013)

Adoption of the current "Living Wage" as the minimum rate of pay for university employees. For full information see circular PERS(13)03.

Change to length of unpaid parental leave (8 March 2013)

Each parent can now take up to 18 weeks' unpaid leave for each child. Full details are available in the parental leave area of the web.

Latest maternity tables (7 March 2013)

The maternity tables showing important dates for SMP and maternity leave has been updated for 2013/2014. This can be found in the maternity section.

Auto-enrolment for pensions (1 March 2013)

A circular is available explaining how the new auto-enrolment for pensions regulations will be implemented across the University.

The Pensions website now has information about auto-enrolment. There is a web page for managers, which includes the slides from the recent briefings together with downloadable copies of the recent communications to staff.

Casual pay spine with equivalent grades (17 January 2013)

A revised chart of hourly rates is available Casual pay spine with equivalent grades 2013 (20kb)

See also guidance on casual workers.

August 2012 salary scales (14 January 2013)

August 2012 revision of university salary scales: all non-clinical staff