How does YUFA affirmative action work?
Affirmative action principles are to be implemented throughout the hiring process – in advertising, in searches, and in recommendations for appointment. Affirmative action in YUFA’s Collective Agreement works primarily as a ‘tie-breaker’ amongst qualified and substantially equal candidates: • In units with at least 40% women, a candidate who is a member of a ‘designated group’ – a visible / racialised minority group member, an Aboriginal person, or a person with a disability – will be recommended; • In units with less than 40% women, the top priority is to recommend a woman from a ‘designated group’, followed by men from such groups or other women; • If two women from ‘designated groups’ tie for top rank, and one is a long-serving contract faculty member from CUPE 3903, she’ll be the recommended candidate. Each unit has affirmative action representatives, who must attend a workshop on employment equity and the relevant Collective Agreement provisions. Representatives help to develop af
