From the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT):

Fair Employment Week (FEW) typically takes place the last week of from October.

FEW is the Canadian Association of University Teacher’s (CAUT) annual campaign to raise awareness about precarious employment on campus and to support your local association’s organizing efforts to improve the working conditions of Contract Academic Staff (CAS), and to improve the working conditions of CAS by amplifying their voices.

Information about this year’s FEW will be available soon.

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2025 Fair Employment Week October 20-24: Make It Fair for Contract Academic Staff

Letter to the Editor: Mobilizing CAS- engaging the hidden support (February 2024)

Are contact academic staff having a moment? (January 2023)

CAUT Policy Statement: Academic Freedom and Contract Academic Staff (Approved by the CAUT Council, April 2022)

By the numbers / CAUT survey of contract academic staff in Canada (September 2018)

CAUT releases results of first national survey of contract academic staff
(September 4, 2018)

Interview / Dr. Karen Foster (September 2018)

“Out of the Shadows: Experiences of Contact Academic Staff” (September 2018)

Shattering myths about contract academic staff (September 2018)

The faces of precarity (October 2017)

The precarious life of contract academic staff (October 2016)

President’s Message: Make it fair for contract academic staff (October 2016)

From the Association of Nova Scotia University Teachers (ANSUT):

Precarious U: Contract Faculty in Nova Scotia Universities by Dr. Karen Foster (2016)

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6th StFXAUT Collective Agreement:

ARTICLE 2.10 PART-TIME ACADEMIC INSTRUCTORS (pgs. 134-140)
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Health Care Spending Account

As per ARTICLE 1.16.7 BENEFITS FOR PART-TIME MEMBERS (pg. 42):

1.0 Part-time Members, after being employed by the University for 450 hours, and Part-Time Academic Instructors or Part-Time Laboratory Instructors, after having taught four (4) three credit courses (who do not qualify for other StFX benefit plans), are eligible for a Health Care Spending Account against which they may claim their health care related expenses (including private Health and Dental Plan premiums).

2.0 The University will credit to each eligible Member’s Health Care Spending Account 5% of the total value of their compensation (e.g., per-course stipends) up to a maximum on an annual basis of:

• • July 1, 2022: $1,200
  • July 1, 2023: $1,200
  • July 1, 2024: $1,300
  • July 1, 2025: $1,400

 

3.0 Any unused portion of the amount credited in one year shall be carrier over to the subsequent year but no further.

Inquiries:
StFX:
– Human Resources: [email protected]
– Employee benefits phone number (connecting you to StFX’s benefit partners): (902) 867-4996
– Employee benefits webpage

Medavie:
– Blue Cross Health and Dental coverage phone: 1-800-667-4511
– Blue Cross Health and Dental website