Dawson Teachers Union --- www.dtu.qc.ca
Room 8A.11 - (514) 931-8731 local 1799 - dtu@aei.ca

Regular Sector

In April you can download the G.O.S. form and submit to the College by April 30.

2. Get your scholarity evaluated. Bring HR all your official transcripts and diplomas (within 30 days), or bring an official Attestation de scolarité from the  Minister of Education.

3. Get your experience evaluated. Get letters from previous employers confirming past employment experience and submit them to HR (within 30 days). Any job can be credited, not just teaching, provided it is somewhat related to your discipline. If you were self-employed, special procedures apply (contact the DTU).

4. Mark down in your agenda the need to submit another G.O.S. in the month of April.

5. Become a DTU member.
This costs only $1 and allows you to vote at general assemblies.
Find out more about how the DTU works. Download the DTU membership application form.

Continuing Education

1. Get your scholarity evaluated. Bring HR all your official transcripts and diplomas (within 30 days), or bring an official Attestation de scolarité from the Minister of Education.

Since Continuing Education teachers are only paid based on scholarity, they do not need to get their experience evaluated. However, if you foresee moving to the Regular Sector, it might be a good idea to have your experience evaluated now (to prevent future delays).

2. Become a DTU member. This costs only $1 and allows you to vote at general assemblies.
Find out more about how the DTU works. Download the DTU membership application form.

3. Send a G.O.S. form now (within 30 days of hiring) to Human Resources (HR). This may strengthen your chance to teach in regular education.

Regular Sector

This will activate your hiring priority for the next academic year.

If you do not send your G.O.S. between April 1 and April 30, you will lose your hiring priority for the next academic year. You cannot be late!

Work is distributed by order of hiring priority.

If you are a part-time teacher: also apply to continuing education and summer school postings (see right column).

In April, download the G.O.S. form or get a copy from Human Resources and submit it before the April 30 deadline.

Continuing Education

In Cont Ed, you must apply to each posting for which you would like to be considered.

Once you apply for a posting in your discipline, this activates your hiring priority for the course in that posting.

To know what postings are available, check the Dawson College web site:
Cont Ed Postings

Postings are "posted" for 10 days only, so check often, particularly:

In early November (for winter).

In early April (for summer).

In early May (for fall).

Send a G.O.S. form now (within 30 days of hiring) to Human Resources (HR). This may strengthen your chance to teach in regular education.

Regular Sector

Sick days
You do have access to sick-days, as well as a free short-term disability insurance for the duration of your contract.

Pension plan
You are automatically registered in the RREGOP pension plan.

Professional Development Fund
Full-time teachers have access to an annual $700 in funds for professional development activities (courses, conferences, etc.). If you are part-time, or hourly-paid, the amount is prorated to your load.

Free courses at Dawson
You have access to any Dawson courses for free, regardless of your workload. This includes all the software workshops given at CIATT.

Leaves
A leave allows you time with no requirement for availability to the College but where you keep your employment link. This means that when you return from the leave you reintegrate your teaching job. Professional Development leaves, both full-time and part-time are available to all teachers, including conted teachers. The others require either full-time status or permanence. Consult the leave table (Acrobat document - 51KB) to learn more about leaves. To apply for a leave, fill a request for leave of absence form (Acrobat document - 95KB).

Vacation
You are entitled to 2 months paid vacation in the summer (mid-June to mid-August).

Permanence
You have access to permanence. Being permanent offers job security.

Access to the 50% CI-clause
It is possible for part-timers to use their Cont Ed teaching to reach full-time Regular Sector status.

Continuing Education

Continuing Education teachers do not have access to most of the benefits granted to Regular Sector teachers.

This means:

But, you do have access to:

Pension plan
You are automatically registered in the RREGOP pension plan.

Professional Development Fund
Dawson College provides its hourly-paid teachers the same professional development benefits as the regular sector teachers. The full-time equivalent for an hourly-paid teacher is 525 hours of teaching in the year.

Free courses at Dawson
You have access to any Dawson courses for free, regardless of your workload. This includes all the software workshops given at CIATT.

Leaves
A leave allows you time with no requirement for availability to the College but where you keep your employment link. This means that when you return from the leave you reintegrate your teaching job. Professional Development leaves, both full-time and part-time are available to all teachers, including conted teachers. The others require either full-time status or permanence. Consult the leave table (Acrobat document - 51KB) to learn more about leaves. To apply for a leave, fill a request for leave of absence form (Acrobat document - 95KB).

Regular Sector

Medical/Life Insurance
By law, you must subscribe to the Dawson Medical Insurance plan unless you are covered by a private drug insurance plan elsewhere. If you have a spouse, or family, they too must be covered.

Dental insurance
OPTIONAL

Short-term disability insurance
Included in your work contract (free). After 5 consecutive days of sickness, you fall under this plan. Applies until the end of your contract.

Long-term disability insurance
Long-term disability insurance OPTIONAL for non-permanent teachers. MANDATORY once you become permanent. Covers teachers after the first two years of disability.

Continuing Education

Continuing Education teachers do not have access to any of the insurance plans. If conted teachers had access to the insurance policies they would be required to be members of these plans and to pay for them. This would not affect those already insured elsewhere. However, it would significanltly increase the cost of insurance for younger teachers with dependents.

Regular Sector

In addition:

Attend the Non-perms information meetings organized by the DTU.

Get to know how to calculate your workload (CI calculation).

If you are part-time, always apply to Cont Ed postings, and summer postings in your discipline. Do this even if it will mean having a really heavy semester.

Continuing Education

Attend the Cont Ed information meetings organized by the DTU.

Try to move to the Regular Sector.

Get help if you need it.

Get involved with your local union to try to improve Cont Ed teachers' working conditions.

Send our G.O.S. form (General Offer of Services) to Human Resources