In this virtual workshop, experts will address key issues and trends in interest arbitration and grievance arbitration in the university sector, as reflected in the decisions of leading arbitrators across Canada. Attendees can expect to learn principles and practices related to the following:

• Academic freedom and the limits on faculty’s “free speech” rights
• Salary disputes and remedial options
• Pension and benefit issues, before and after retirement
• Privacy concerns and access to information
• The role and results of grievance arbitration
• Faculty bargaining and its outcomes
• Challenging promotion and merit pay decisions
• Faculty rights to design courses, assign marks, determine content
• University governance issues: the roles of the President, Senate and Faculty Association
• Advancing EDI
• Ensuring accommodation, combatting discrimination
• Challenging discipline
• Defending against harassment
• Navigating investigations, invoking protections
• Appointments: tenured, tenure stream, teaching, sessional, contractually limited
• Workload
• Job security: closures, cutbacks, abolition of programs