Notice to regular members about August pay: Employer based your pay on commitment level, not actual workload in 23/24

Dear members, this is a message for regular members who worked in 2023/24.

Most of you will have seen your August pay by now. The CFA learned today that the HR department assigned your pay for August 2024 based on your commitment level, rather than on your actual workload in 2023/24.

If you worked above your commitment level in 2023/24, your pay for August will be lower than the income you received in the previous months of 2023/24.

This is not what the CFA understood the University was going to do during our discussions about the change in academic year last May. And it is contrary to what we bargained when we agreed to change the academic year from the old start of 1 August to the new start of 1 September. (That agreement stated that “no employee shall suffer any detrimental impact to their pay” due to the change in academic year.)

We are going to meet with HR to attempt to resolve this. If necessary, we will grieve the shortfall.

This issue only affects August 2024. Your monthly income in September onward will be based on your actual workload for this academic year (September ’24 through August ’25).

We will update you about this next week.

In solidarity,

CFA stewards Michael Begg, Doug Alards-Tomalin, and Diana Twiss