CAUT Policy Statement

Historically, many Canadian post-secondary institutions have had regulations, contracts or unwritten conventions which bar the hiring as academic staff of one member of a family if another has employment with the institution. CAUT is opposed to such regulations and conventions and recommends that those in existence be abolished.

Approved by the CAUT Council, May 1973;
Approved by the CAUT Council, November 2003;
Editorial revisions, November 2008;
No changes, February 2014;
Editorial Revisions, November 2018;
Reviewed, no changes, February 2023.