Sessional instructors (CUPE 4163)

Recruitment

General

  • CUPE 4163 collective agreement article 13: The collective agreement between UVic and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4163 (Component 3). Article 13 refers to the expressions of interest, appointment procedures.
  • Relocation Assistance Policy (HR6405). The purpose of this policy is to assist new employees with the cost of their relocation to enable their work at the University of Victoria.
  • Travel and Business Expenses (FM5610). This policy applies to all travel and business expenditures paid from university administered funds.

Preferential/limited hiring

New sessional instructors

  • Employee onboarding: Reviews the roles and tools available to help all parties support a successful employee orientation.
  • Collective agreement: The collective agreement between UVic and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4163 (Component 3).

Retention

General

Health and wellness

  • Continuing sessional lecturer benefits handbook: This document reviews the major provisions of the benefit plan for continuing sessional lecturers.
  • Benefits quick reference guide for continuing sessional lecturers: A quick reference guide to benefits for continuing sessional lecturers.
  • Employee & Family Assistance Program: The program provides information, advice and support to help you navigate many of life's milestones.
  • Work life consultants: The work life consulting team manages the absence and disability management program (short-term illness/injury, return to work and medical accommodations) and coordinates health promotion initiatives for staff and faculty.
  • Balanced living: Our services actively promote practices of inclusion, respect, wellness, accessibility, safety and accommodation as the foundations of our healthy university community.
  • Mental health and well being: UVic is committed to fostering environments for work and study that are safe, supportive, inclusive and healthy, encourage mutual respect and civility, while recognizing that people are our primary strength.
  • Return to work – stay at work: A collaborative process involving departments, unions, staff and faculty members at UVic. The program provides a planned approach to returning or remaining at work following an injury or illness, whether occupational or non-occupational.
  • Multifaith Chapel: The chapel is used primarily by officially recognized university chaplains of Multifaith Services to administer to the religious and spiritual needs of the university community. It was built with the intention of being a sacred space for prayer, meditation, spiritual practice, and worship for the campus community.
  • Ergonomics: The ergonomics program at UVic actively promotes practices to ensure the health and safety of all of our employees.
  • HR Health and Wellness blog:  Events, learning and resources to help employees to promote health, wellness and balanced living.
  • Hiring Individuals with Disabilities: A website by the President's Group to promote the benefits and successful approaches to hiring and integrating employees with disabilities into workplaces.

Professional development

  • Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation: The Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation is at the heart of UVic’s commitment to cultivate an extraordinary academic environment through supporting faculty, instructors and teaching assistants with professional development as well as fostering undergraduates’ academic success.
  • Faculty Institute of Teaching (FIT): Provides an opportunity for faculty to enhance their skills in lecturing, teaching and learning strategies, syllabus construction, grading student performance, and teaching dossier preparation
  • Continuing sessional lecturer scholarship fund: This is a fund to support the professional development of sessional lecturers designated in their appointment as continuing by UVic’s Human Resources.

Accommodation

General

  • Employment accommodation policy: This policy clarifies UVic’s responsibilities to provide accommodations to employees and job applicants.
  • Central accommodation fund: The central accommodation fund has been established by the university to help accommodate employees with disabilities and to provide departments with a source of funds to support necessary and reasonable accommodations.
  • Examples of successful faculty accommodation measures: Examples of real accommodations implemented following medical documentation and discussions with the faculty members and/or chair to creatively remove barriers for faculty members with temporary or permanent medical conditions
  • Mental health and well being: UVic is committed to fostering environments for work and study that are safe, supportive, inclusive and healthy, encourage mutual respect and civility, while recognizing that people are our primary strength.
  • Return to work – stay at work: A collaborative process involving departments, unions, staff and faculty members at UVic. The program provides a planned approach to returning or remaining at work following an injury or illness, whether occupational or non-occupational.
  • Work life consultants: The work life consulting team manages the absence and disability management program (short-term illness/injury, return to work and medical accommodations) and coordinates health promotion initiatives for staff and faculty.
  • WorkSafe BC claims: WorkSafeBC is the operating name of the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia. It is a no-fault insurance system set up through the Worker Compensation Act to protect workers and employers against the financial impact of work related injuries.