Increasing pensionable service

May 2024

1. President’s Message: Job Action Task Force and Response to Bill 18

2. Strikes across Canada

3. No salary adjustment from gain sharing provision

4. Increasing pensionable service

5. Know your rights for sick time

6. Results from 2024 Surveys on the Performance of Deans and Equivalents

7. Fall 2023 Sessional Travel Fund Results

8. Research security restrictions

9. Faculty Association Board of Directors Election Results

10. Audited financial statements for 2022-23

We want to remind all members in the pension plan that you have two years from the date of receiving a tenured contract to purchase prior service. It is not from your start date unless your contract was for a tenured position. If you do not purchase the prior service during that window, you cannot do so later.

Prior service includes:

a period of employment with any participating employer during which time you did not make pension contributions, such as work as a sessional employee.
a period of pensionable service with an employer outside the UAPP, provided you meet all the required conditions.

For more information you can consult the UAPP Member Handbook (https://uapp.ca/publications/member-handbooks/) or the UAPP Info Sheets (https://uapp.ca/publications/information-sheets/).