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Assignment of Duties: Annual meeting and guidelines

This is the time of year when processes for the assignment of duties are beginning. Provisions for the assignment of duties are covered in Article 11 of the Collective Agreement. The processes in the Agreement are there to ensure that workloads are fair and equitable.  Department Heads, or Deans in non-departmentalized Colleges, “following consultation and discussion with […]

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Balancing your assignment of duties

Some faculty members have already begun collegial discussions about assignment of duties in their units for the 2021-2022 academic year.  Many members have contacted the Association about unfairness and inequitability in the workload assignment in recent years, and particularly during the lockdown. The major changes in teaching culture might be a good time to revisit […]

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Assignment of Duties by May 31?

Despite the Association’s agreement to the Employer’s request that the timeline for completing assignment of duties be delayed by one month, to May 31, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some colleges are having difficulty meeting the deadline. We know of at least one college where duties assigned by Department Heads have not been approved by […]

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