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This document provides an overview of the StFXAUT salary proposal and the financial offer provided by StFX. It discusses the basics of the offer, offer by employment category (Lab Instructor, Clinical Associate, Part-Time, Coady & Extension, Librarian, Faculty), and the calculation of parity. The offer addresses issues such as promotion through rank, treatment of different associations, and progress over time for Lab Instructors. It also discusses the offer for Clinical Associates, Part-Time faculty, Coady & Extension, and Librarians. The document highlights the achievement of parity through structural changes to the salary scale and the concept of progression through the ranks.
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STFXAUT Salary Proposal and STFX Offer - Overview • STFXAUT Financial Proposal • StFX Financial Offer • Basics of Offer • Offer by Employment Category • Lab Instructor • Clinical Associate • Part-Time • Coady & Extension • Librarian • Faculty
STFXAUT Salary Proposal • Statement on Parity (See Section 2 Appendix C, p. 128) • University recognizes: • “need to compensate all employees fairly” • University committed: • “need to compensate all employees fairly” • “to achieving parity” • “parity will be phased in over a six year period” (i.e. by September 1, 2011) • parity is defined as career earnings “over a normal career path” (i.e. 30 year career) • “salary scales are the primary measurement mechanism”
STFX OFFER to STFXAUT Overview – Basics • Salary Increases are an economic adjustment of: • 2.9% for three years for faculty • 2.0% for three years for “non-faculty” members • Recent economic adjustments: • 3.1%, 2.9%, 2.9% SMU (three years) • 2.9% CBU (four years) • 4.0%, 3.0%, 3% Bishops (three years) • 2% internal non-union and union groups STFX offer (1 year) • Parity within STFXAUT: • Treatment of the membership as different “Associations” continues • Promotionthrough Rank (PTR) • Scales did not address opportunity to be promoted (Librarians, Lab Instructors, Clinical Associates, Coady & Extension)
STFX OFFER to STFXAUT Overview – Lab Instructors • Lab Instructors: • STFX Offer is 2%, 2%, 2% • STFX Offer only reflects “progress over time” not a promotable career • Salary scales are presented as annual salary however average Lab instructor contract is not annual but 75% (i.e. 38 weeks)
STFX OFFER to STFXAUT Overview – Clinical Associates • Clinical Associates: • STFX Offer is 2%, 2%, 2% • From the last negotiation, Clinical Associates sought to readdress the salary compensation by assessing classification relative to NSNU and NSGEU • CBU continues to address the reclassification issue in their latest settlement. • STFX Offer reflects “province declined to participate” in reclassification
STFX OFFER to STFXAUT Overview – Part-Time • Part time Faculty: • STFX Offer to part-time faculty is 6.75% in the first year (retroactive to July 09) and 2.0% for the next two years • 2009-2010 stipend offer ($8,500 )is $1,277 below the average of the comparator group and is below the lowest stipend currently offered by the comparator group (i.e. MSV $8,550).
STFX OFFER to STFXAUT Overview – Coady & Extension • Coady & Extension: • STFX Offer is 2%, 2%, 2% • Request to merge Coady & Extension scales not addressed • Request to reorganize the scale from 2 ranks to 4 ranks not addressed
STFX OFFER to STFXAUT Overview – Librarians • Librarians: • STFX Offer is 2%, 2%, 2% • Delink Librarian scale from Faculty scale
STFX OFFER to STFXAUT Overview –Faculty • Salary Increases • Economic adjustment is 2.9% for three years • StFX e-mail communication dated December 6th • a) Assistant (87 faculty): 15.33% to 20.98%, b) Associates (67 faculty): 14.04% to 23.07%, c) Full Professors (41 faculty) 15.53% to 20.51% • Q. How achieve 20.98% increase with 2.9% adjustment? – A. Progression through the Ranks • Parity Achievement • STFXAUT Parity calculation 9.62% adjustment to salary scales plus economic adjustment • STFX e- mail communication dated Dec. 7th “ the gap between STFXAUT Request and STFX Offer is 0.3%” • Q. How achieve parity with 2.9% adjustment? – A. Structural changes to the salary scale
STFX OFFER to STFXAUT Overview –Faculty • Q. How achieve 20.98% increase with 2.9% adjustment? – A. Progression through the Ranks • Progress through the ranks is a deferred salary and it is a salary structure mechanism unique to the university sector. • Faculty are already entitled to progression through the ranks and as such any determination of salary adjustments must not include increases related to progression through the ranks.
STFX OFFER to STFXAUT Overview – Issues (Faculty) • Q. How achieve parity with 2.9% adjustment? – A. Structural changes to the salary scale • Parity via Structural Changes to the Scale: • University scales are structured with the back loading of salaries to later in one’s career; deferred salary process is a system-wide mechanism • STFX proposed structural changes: (over three years) • Assistant : Eliminate (by 2011) bottom step and top step (12 to10 steps) • Associate: Eliminate (by 2011) bottom two steps and top step (17 to 14 steps) • Full: Eliminate (by 2011) bottom three steps and top step (18 to 14 steps) • Weighted average step by rank at StFX: • Assistant- 6 step • Associate-9 step • Full -12 step