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From: Teri Marie Brown <[FOI #8699 email]>
Sent: Monday, 17 September 2018 10:23 PM
To: OIA Requests <[VUW request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - How do you employee tutors

Dear Victoria University of Wellington,

In your response to by previous OIA you responded that the tutor was not a permanent employee. Yet in your contract for services policy you state a contractor should not be undertaking a core activity of the university. see below

So how do you engage tutors - employees, contractors, suppliers or some other means. Surely they don't work for free. Do you have a standard agreement of some sort for engaging tutors - are you able to provide a copy.

Or to put it bluntly why was a tutor who had been harassing a student handle as a student to student harassment. If a tutor was harassing a member of staff such as yourself would this also be handles as a student matter or an employment matter. Would it have not been more appropriate for VUW to have handled this matter under the "GUIDELINES FOR RESOLVING ALLEGED MISCONDUCT"

Contract for Services Policy
In principle a Contractor should not be undertaking a core activity of the University (for example: teaching, tutoring, curriculum development, and research work); or performing services exclusively for the University (see Appendix A: Status Criteria), which also applies to former staff who have resigned applying to contract back to undertake similar work.

Yours faithfully,
t s brown

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