UTFA All Members’ Meeting on the COVID Letter of Understanding (LOU) & Health and Safety Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 5:00-7:00 pm

August 28, 2021
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UTFA All Members’ Meeting on the COVID Letter of Understanding (LOU) & Health and Safety

Tuesday, August 31, 2021
5:00 to 7:00 pm

Please join us to learn more about how the recently-negotiated COVID LOU between UTFA and the Administration affects you, including:

  • Your right not to be required to teach hybrid or dual-delivery courses;
  • How the special PTR process works;
  • Workload relief provisions;
  • Your right to choose not to use Student Course Evaluations in some circumstances;
  • Which of your expenses qualify under the special COVID Expense Reimbursement Fund (the “CERF”); and,
  • Detailed accommodation guidelines, including whom to contact, for those facing medical circumstances, childcare responsibilities, or eldercare responsibilities.

UTFA’s members of the U of T Central Health and Safety Committee will also provide updates on, answer your questions about, and assess the sufficiency of the University Administration’s fall reopening plans. Learn more about:

  • The University’s new approach to vaccines;
  • The just-updated mask policy and the ongoing challenge of compliance;
  • Why some units are being permitted to opt to teach online and others are not;
  • Classroom occupancy rates that greatly exceed provincial Step 3 limits;
  • Why it is critical that we measure and verify ventilation rates; and,
  • How we can work together to advocate for transparent, specific, measurable, and accountable steps to protect the U of T community.

Kindly register at faculty@utfa.org. You will receive a Zoom link once you have registered. Remember to save the meeting to your calendar.

Please also send us your questions in advance to faculty@utfa.org—we will do our best to address them.

Sincerely,

Terezia Zorić
UTFA President

Jun Nogami, 
UTFA Vice-President, Salary, Benefits, Pensions, and Workload