Notices

A video mini-series around what we each can do to get along better with our colleagues and improve workplace relationships.

LifeWorks Total Wellbeing platform is now live. Complete a health assessment, begin a self-paced wellness program, check out supports and resources. Get the help you need, anytime, anywhere. Login through our EFAP page

Human Resources has developed some helpful hints for supporting your team through the return to campus and fall transition including Team Reintegration Resources.

There’s still time to register for You’re the Best-Fest—a festival of celebration, appreciation and reconnection for UVic employees from May 9 to 13. If you can’t attend, visit the website to read stories about some of the amazing work that has happened across campus since March 2020. We appreciate you and the amazing work you do, and look forward to seeing everyone at You’re the Best-Fest! Events are free and open to all UVic employees. Interested in volunteering at the Thank You booth? Please email odls1@uvic.ca or sign up. Register for Best-Fest events today. We hope to see you next week!

The Long Term Disability (LTD) Trust consists of six (6) Trustees including three persons appointed by the university and three other persons, one of whom shall be elected by a vote of the Management Excluded employees of the university. An individual must be appointed to a continuing Management Excluded position, be a contributing member of the LTD Plan, and consent to the nomination in order to be eligible for election as a Member Trustee. Nomination information will be e-mailed to all eligible Management Excluded staff on Mon., Jan. 10th. The deadline to return completed nomination forms to Human Resources is Fri., Jan. 28th. Ballots and candidate biographies will then be distributed by mail to all Management Excluded employees on Thurs., Feb. 3rd with a deadline of return by Thurs., March 17th. The results will be communicated shortly thereafter. If you have questions, please feel free to contact Cordelia Horsburgh, LTD Trust Secretary at (250) 721-8032 or avphrassist@uvic.ca.

Please review the CUPE 951 and 917 Holiday Guidelines which were developed jointly with the two CUPE Locals, and which provide additional information on how the leaves of absence with pay are to be administered. Please circulate this bulletin to all CUPE 951 and 917 staff in your area of responsibility.

Please see the PEA Holiday Closure Guidelines and circulate to staff as appropriate.

The UVic Mentorship Program enhances professional and personal development by establishing a close relationship between two staff members that provides informal guidance, coaching, knowledge-sharing, and a deepened understanding of the University of Victoria environment. Mentee applications are due by October 29, 2021.

New Employee Tours provide faculty and staff with an overview of our campus. If this is your first job at UVic (and even if it's not), join us to get a better idea of your new workplace and the UVic community.

The federal election will take place on Monday, September 20, 2021. According to the provisions of the Canada Elections Act, employees working a normal day shift may leave to vote at 4 p.m., three hours prior to the polls closing at 7 p.m. University offices and services may close at 4 p.m. unless other arrangements have been made.

The university flags were lowered on May 28 in memory of the 215 children whose bodies have been discovered on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation territory. They will remain lowered until further notice.

Learning Central is launching phase two on July 21st

UVic is inviting applications from across campus to select a staff member who is interested in assisting with the Greater Victoria United Way fundraising campaign this fall as UVic’s on loan “Campaign Associate” to the 2021 campaign.