Policy Statement
The Non-Regular Faculty Committee works to promote better and more consistent representation of the interests of those members of FPSE locals who are involuntarily deprived of job security, salary or benefits normally accorded faculty within their respective locals.
Liaison: The Non-Regular Faculty Committee shall have the right to appoint a liaison person to each FPSE Standing Committee and to appoint a representative to the Provincial Bargaining Committee with voice but no vote.
Responsibilities
In addition to those responsibilities and activities that may be directed to it by the Presidents’ Council or the AGM, this Committee will:
- Monitor developments in the salary, working conditions, and employment security of non-regular faculty and develop strategies to protect and enhance the interest of non-regular faculty.
- Monitor the effects of the removal of mandatory retirement at FPSE locals and the effectiveness of any Transition to Retirement initiatives and their compliance with FPSE policies. Make action recommendations on Transition to Retirement matters from time to time as deemed necessary.
- Develop and recommend to the Presidents’ Council a program of bargaining and lobbying objectives to advance the interests of non-regular faculty.
- Examine and recommend to the Presidents’ Council collective action in support of the policy statements of this Committee.
Terms of Reference
- Reporting to: Reports regularly to the FPSE President and the Presidents’ Council.
- Composition: The Academic Governance Committee (AGC) will be composed of one designated representative from each local and the FPSE President or Secretary-Treasurer or designate. A member will be appointed by the Executive Committee, with voice but without vote, to act as liaison between the Standing Committee, the Executive, and Presidents’ Council.
- Term of Appointment: Committee members will normally be appointed for a term of two years.
- Meetings: Such meetings as are required to fulfill its responsibilities, limited only by the funding allocated to the Committee. The Committee may substitute or include a workshop or conference for a meeting.
- Chairperson: The Committee shall elect a new Chairperson at the fall meeting. The Committee shall endeavour to elect a Chairperson who has served on the Committee a previous term as a local representative. The Chairperson or designate shall have observer status at meetings of the Presidents’ Council with voice but no vote. The responsibility of the Chairperson includes attendance by the Chairperson or designate at the Presidents’ Council meeting immediately subsequent to a meeting of the Committee or upon request of the FPSE President. The Chairperson shall attend the Annual General Meeting and Convention. The Convention shall provide orientation and planning opportunities for Committee Chairpersons and facilitate their meeting as a group. The duly elected Chairperson of the Committee shall continue to serve as Chairperson where the Chairperson ceases to be a designated local representative to the Committee.
- Observers: By invitation of the Chair.
- Quorum: A majority of those member locals that have appointed AGC representatives.
- Voting: Positions adopted by consensus among designated representatives; otherwise by simple majority of those voting.
- Funds: As allocated in the annual budget.
Resources of Interest
The North American Alliance for Fair Employment
- The North American Alliance for Fair Employment
(NAFFE) is a network of organizations concerned about the growth of contingent work—including part-time jobs, temping, sub-contracting—and its impact on the well being of all workers.
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