Joint Release from: Thompson Rivers University (TRU) and the TRU Faculty Association (TRUFA)

KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University and the TRU Faculty Association are pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached on mandatory retirement.

Through a series of meetings over the past two weeks, the parties have agreed to end mandatory retirement effective July 1, 2007, which will give seven faculty members facing retirement this year the option to stay with the university. Additionally, as part of the agreement, all outstanding grievances related to the issue of mandatory retirement have been resolved.