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Ontario Arts Council tentative agreement

April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028

Highlights

Your AMAPCEO Bargaining Team and the OAC Employer have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract to run retroactively to 2025 and through to 2028. Your bargaining team is unanimously recommending ratification.

The following is a summary of highlights only.

Term

A three-year contract from April 1, 2025 until March 31, 2028

Salary increases

Across-the-board salary increases of 2.75%, 2.25%, and 2% over those respective years, applied retroactively.

Improvements to benefits

Going forward, vision and hearing benefits are now included in the benefits plan and 100% employer covered.

Work/life balance wins

In the tentative agreement:

  • compress worked weeks (CWWs) and flexible hours of work will be explicitly recognized alternative work arrangement (AWA) options
  • The current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding AWAs will be replaced with a new MOU that provides a time-limited period for the employer to make decisions on AWAs to replace the hybrid work standard
  • members will be permitted to carry over 12 vacation days (up from 10) at their discretion without manager approval
  • fixed term employees can use their paid days off immediately

Workplace improvements

  • The number of Workplace Representatives will increase to 3
  • The joint Equity Committee will extend for the term of the agreement

OAC Tentative Agreement

Friday, May 29, 2026
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We would like to acknowledge Tkaronto, a Mohawk word meaning “the place in the water where the trees are standing.”

The AMAPCEO office is on the traditional unceded territory of Haudenosaunee speaking nations, including the Wendat, Seneca and Mohawk. These nations have been here since time immemorial and were in more recent times joined by the Mississaugas of the Credit.

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