From the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT):
Fair Employment Week (FEW) is taking place from October 20 to 24, 2025.
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. To learn more about Fair Employment Week, please visit Make It Fair for Contract Academic Staff.
2025 Fair Employment Week Events:
- Social Media Day of Action – Wednesday, October 22
Help spread the word online about Fair Employment Week and the realities of precarious employment on our campuses.
CAUT has developed digital resources to support associations’ engagement in this day of action. CAUT encourages members to use their customizable social media material templates.
Remember to use the hashtags #MakeitFair and #Fairness4CAS.
- The Association of Nova Scotia University Teachers (ANSUT) welcomes all to join a panel discussion celebrating Contract Academic Staff on Monday, October 20 from 630pm to 830 pm (AST). The panel brings together researchers, labour leaders, and those with lived experience to examine the growing precarity faced by CAS, explore trends and tactics shaping their work, highlight the power of solidarity across the labour movement, and ground these issues in real-world impacts and solutions. Details including registration info here.
#MakeItFair
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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:
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- 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