The College Employer Council has provided/posted Please Vote about the strike vote on its website on December 10. 

It is important for each academic employee to make informed decisions throughout the bargaining process. More information is also available on the CEC’s website and the OPSEU website.

December 14, 2021 kicks off the Winter 2022 International Orientation Month. Pre-orientation and orientation events will take place virtually until January 20, 2022.  

These events will be hosted by various members of the Humber community, such as Humber Libraries and First-Year Experience, and also external partners, including Morcare Health Insurance and Service Canada. The events are designed to help both new and returning students to prepare for the start of the academic term and life in Canada. 

Some of the events include:  

• Travel to Canada,  
• Finding Your 1st Job in Canada, 
• Service Canada Workshop, 
• Applying for a Co-Op Work Permit, 
• Learning How to Navigate the Humber Library – Virtually, 
• Budgeting 101 and lots more  

For a complete list of events, see our orientation website. 

For any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to Amanda Koski, Manager, International Student Services at amanda.koski@humber.ca. 

To the Humber community,

Further to the December 7th academic bargaining update, effective Monday December 13th the CEC will introduce terms and conditions of employment for Academic bargaining unit members. These changes will positively impact members.

Humber is actively working across the college to implement these changes. Changes are as follows:

• Maximum annual wage increase, retroactive to October 1st 2021, as currently allowed under Bill 124.
• Medical cannabis coverage prescribed by a licensed physician to a maximum of $4000/year, subject to prior authorization by the insurer.
• Permit Indigenous teachers to bring an elder or traditional knowledge keeper to the WMG as an advisor.
• Permit Indigenous employees to bring an elder or traditional knowledge keeper to grievance meetings as an advisor.
• Coordinator duties will be reduced in writing before an employee accepts a coordinator-ship. Such acceptance will remain voluntary.
• Update the counsellor class definition.

Partial Load

• Partial Load employees will accrue service for statutory Holidays on which they were scheduled to teach.
• Partial Load registration date change from October 30th to April 30th.
• Extend Partial Load registration preference to courses which a partial load employee taught while part-time or sessional.
• Partial Load priority will continue for a course even if the course code changes, unless there has been a major revision of the course or curriculum.

More information will follow as changes are implemented.

Greetings all,

This communication is to inform you that Bharat Saini, Manager Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion, will be leaving Humber on December 10, 2021. Please join me in wishing Bharat a successful career journey as he continues to share the principles of EDI & Belonging at the post-secondary sector.

We appreciate all of Bharat’s contributions to Humber over the years and wish him the best. To contact Bharat directly, please email him at bharat.saini@humber.ca.

Kind regards,

Nancy Simms
Director, Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion