General Meeting This Monday!

BVCFA Summer Information

Hello Faculty Members,

For those of you who are about to take vacations we wish you well. For those of you in the middle of your summer term we wish you pleasant days and no line ups at the elevators.

The BVCFA Office is open during the summer. Monday 9-3 Wednesday 9-2 and Thursday 9-2.

If you need assistance outside these times please email bvcfa@bvcfa.com.

We’d like to welcome our incoming executive, starting September 1, 2017.

President Bart Chudleigh

Vice President Welfare and Grievance Jeri Wylie-Smith

Vice President Professional Affairs Lindsay Bonenfant

Vice President Negotiations Trevor McIvor

Treasurer (to be announced in September)

Board of Governors Representative Hana Taleb-Imai

Academic Council Representative (to be elected by the Faculty Caucus of Academic Council for a 1 year term)

Past Executive Nicole Estabrooks

BVC Fraud Policy (Do not respond)

Dear Faculty,

As you are probably aware, the College has circulated a Human Resource Action email, dated Friday June 23, 2017. This is the BVC Fraud Policy #200-1-4 and the college has asked it to be signed and returned by June 30, 2017. While we fully support the first four points of this policy we have issue and concerns with point five. “subject to disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal and that I may be subject to litigation depending n the severity of the infraction.

This point circumvents the collective agreement in regards to “just cause” and therefore we have asked the college to remove this language out of the policy. Therefore, we ask that you do not sign this document as it currently stands.

We will continue to keep you updating based on our discussions with Human Resources.

Distance Learning Pay

Distance learning pay is located in Section 38.2 of the BVCFA Collective Agreement. The Collective Agreement is binding and both faculty and the College must abide by it. The terms of payment cannot be changed.

Employee and Family Assistance Program

Employee and Family Assistance Program
Counselling Providers

Bow Valley College provides its employees with assistance from Homewood Health. This wellness provider can offer many different forms of help as well as different ways of providing it.
You can use the phone, email, or have sessions in person.
This service is free of charge for BVC employees.
http://www.homewoodhealth.com/corporate/contact
Please follow the link

Know your Collective Agreement Section 27 Employment Insurance Premium Reduction or Rebate

Know your Collective Agreement Section 28 Maternity Leave and Parental Leave

Know your Collective Agreement Section 26 Benefit Plans

Know your Collective Agreement Section 41 Public Service Pension Plan

Know your Collective Agreement Section 25 General Illness Leave

Know your Collective Agreement Section Section 40 Correctional Institution Salary Allowance

Know your Collective Agreement Section 23 Paid Leave

Know your Collective Agreement Section 21 Staff Reduction

Know your Collective Agreement Section 39 Continuous and Temporary Employees- Rates of Pay

Know your Collective Agreement Section 20 Notice of Resignation

Know your Collective Agreement Section 38 Casual Employees- Rates of Pay

Know your Collective Agreement Section 19 Grievance Procedure

Know your Collective Agreement Section 37 Compensation for Additional Workload, Substitution or Overtime

Know your Collective Agreement Section 18 Disciplinary Action

Substitutes

After discussions with representatives from the College the BVCFA has come to an agreement about the use of substitute teachers in the Centre of Excellence in Foundational Learning. We would like to thank all the people that were involved in the discussions and helped with coming to this understanding.

As a result of the discussions, we have agreed that the CEFL Procedures outlined in March 25, 2015 will be followed. The main points of 1.3 Coverage by a Substitute Teacher are as follows, depending if it is:

• ·         One day or less, internal coverage or class cancellation.
• ·         1-2 days Coordinator discretion based on subject, delivery type etc.
• ·         2 + days, then select a substitute from the substitute teacher list with approval from Coordinator.
• ·         Leaves, holidays, etc. would normally have substitute teacher coverage.

The agreement also states that if a substitute is required, they will be paid as per the Collective Agreement, Article 37.2.

And the last point made in the agreement is that if a faculty member comes in to work from a planned vacation, they will have their vacation bank adjusted to replace the lost day.

Nicole Estabrooks

BVCFA President