{"id":130,"date":"2017-08-21T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=130"},"modified":"2017-08-21T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:54:53","slug":"tuc-dying-to-work-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2017\/08\/21\/tuc-dying-to-work-charter\/","title":{"rendered":"TUC Dying to Work Charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Our branch is delighted that\u00a0as a result of our efforts,\u00a0the University of Kent yesterday became the first university in the UK to commit itself to the TUC Dying to Work Charter. The Charter commits the University\u00a0to &#8220;support, protect and enable&#8221; an\u00a0employee with a diagnosis of terminal illness who chooses to remain in work, where it is reasonable to do so.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> \u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">These links will take you to the University&#8217;s statement\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/kentlife\/14718\/kent-commits-to-tuc-dying-to-work-charter\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: medium\">here<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium\">,\u00a0UCU&#8217;s statement\u200b\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucu.org.uk\/article\/8900\/UCU-welcomes-University-of-Kents-pledge-to-support-terminally-ill-workers?list=1676\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: medium\">here\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium\">and the the TUC&#8217;s twitter feed\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unionbarron\/status\/897107107773915137\/photo\/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dyingtowork.co.uk%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: medium\">here<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;color: black;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">This\u00a0link will take you to the Charter and the University of Kent&#8217;s Memorandum of Understanding &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/hr-staffinformation\/policies\/wellbeing\/index.html?tab=support-for-employees-who-are-terminally-ill\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: medium\">here\u200b<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our branch is delighted that\u00a0as a result of our efforts,\u00a0the University of Kent yesterday became the first university in the UK to commit itself to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2017\/08\/21\/tuc-dying-to-work-charter\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}