Member associations should negotiate contract language which ensures that academic and general staff are supported in meeting their dependant care1 obligations including, but not limited to, sufficient access to employer-funded child and infant or other dependant care, ensuring reasonable accommodation of work schedules, ensuring that no member is penalized as a result of their dependent care responsibilities, and ensuring access to appropriate family leave provisions.
Approved by the CAUT Council, May 2017.
Reviewed, February 2022;
Amended by CAUT Council, April 2022.
Endnote
- See also the CAUT Policy Statement on a National Child Care System. ↩︎
