Category: ASPA Updates

To protect from COVID-19, ASPA highly encourages all members to get vaccinated when eligible and receive all required booster shots when necessary.

Book your Health Canada approved vaccine here:

https://www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-vaccine

On behalf of the ASPA Executive

NOTICE

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPERVISORY

PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION (ASPA)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Wednesday, APRIL 21 2021 VIA ZOOM VIDEO MEETING

1:00 pm (Call to order)

Click a the links below to access documents related to the Annual General Meeting.

LI-HUMEN, Erica

My name is Erica Li-Humen. I graduated from Edwards School of Business with my MBA in 2003. Prior to joining the university, I worked with provincial government for over 10 years as business development manager. I have been with the university since 2019. I worked with the Controller Officer as Institutional Approver, and a Finance Analyst with College of Medicine. In December 2020, I started my new career path with Global Institute for Water Security as Financial Analyst. Although my roles and responsibilities were quite different in the past, I gained a numerous skill with different university units. I appreciate people who I have been working with to provide me the opportunity to challenge myself and help me to achieve my goals.

Continue reading “2021 List of Executive Nominations with Biographies” →

The application form for the 2020-2021 ASPA Tuition Reimbursement Fund is now available online at: paws.usask.ca/go/awards. Students can apply online through their PAWS account as follows:

1. Log into the Scholarships and Bursaries channel in PAWS (paws.usask.ca/go/awards)
2. Click on the green “Apply for awards” button
3. Click on the “Select Application Form” scroll-down menu under “Current Students”
4. Select the “2020-2021 ASPA Tuition Reimbursement Fund Application”; click “Apply”

Please note the following:

• ASPA members with family members graduating in 2021 can still receive the award for work done in the 2020-2021 academic year, even if they are not taking any further courses at the U of S.
• Credit units completed after the end of this academic year (after the end of April 2021) will not be counted for this application, although they will be counted as part of the 2021-2022 application, as per the agreement between ASPA and the University that this award is based on. For example, 3^rd year medical students who complete their credit units after April 2021 will not receive the full amount for the 2020-21 academic term but will be able to receive it the following year even though they started their studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.

The Tuition Reimbursement Fund is available for members’ immediate family (spouses, partner, and children).

ASPA continues to have several open grievances, eighteen (18) to be exact.  To date, of those eighteen (18); ten (10) were filed in 2020.  This compares to the eight (8) and nineteen (19) filed in 2019 and 2018, respectively.  We have however over the recent months been able to resolve a few the grievances related to the Employer’s failure to deduct Association dues.  Many of these grievances have been resolved by having positions moved within the scope of ASPA that were not previously in any bargaining unit.  The theme of the other bulk of our grievances relate to the assertion that the employer has wrongfully laid off a member.

Continue reading “Grievance Update” →