New employees
Welcome to our campus and our community; we hope the information in this section will help familiarize you to our extraordinary organization and all that it has to offer. We look forward to getting to know you.
Download UVic's Employee Handbook and Indigenous Employee Guide. These documents will provide you with information and answers to questions you may have while you navigate your first few weeks.
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New Employee Welcome event
These are annual events that take place online and in person. The next New Employee Welcome events will take place in January 2024.
Content: An informative session where you will be given opportunities to participate in conversations designed to highlight our university culture, values and community, while meeting other new people from various spaces on campus.
The session consists of a wide range of important and interesting information including:
- Welcome messages from the President
- University panel dialogue introducing you to some of our senior administration
- Updates and answers to many FAQs about current UVic projects, research and student activities
- Activities about the value we place on diversity, culture, sustainability, and healthy workplaces
Audience: The event is open to any regular-continuing, extended-term, or sessional employees who have begun work within the past year or who have never attended a new employee welcome before. Invitations with registration details are circulated to new employees and their supervisors via email. Supervisors are strongly encouraged to support shift coverage so that all new employees receive the benefit of this engagement opportunity.
Contact: For questions about the next event, please email odls1@uvic.ca
New Employee Tours
The UVic Welcome Centre, in partnership with Human Resources, offers a monthly, 90 minute, campus tour via golf cart for new employees or employees who have yet to have experienced a tour. Registration is on a first-come-first serve basis. Tours will comply with current campus health and masking guidelines.
Register online for future tours
OR
Take a Virtual Tour of Campus
Things new employees ask about
Performance and development cycle (PDC)
- Benefits - new employees frequently asked questions
- Bus passes
- Campus maps & buildings
- Food & beverage outlets
- Parking
- Staff photo ID (ONECards)
Quick links to resources
Collective Agreements and Employee groups - unions and associations
For more information on the employee groups click here.
Performance expectations of supervisors and employees
Related links
Select university policies
Employees
- Discrimination & Harassment
- Human Rights, Equity and Fairness
- Internet Use, Computer Use
- Liquor Policy
- Protection of Privacy Policy
- Purchasing Policy
- Sustainability Policy
- Traffic and Parking Regulations
- Training and Development
- Travel and Hospitality Policy
- Libraries Loan Policy
- Code of Conduct Policy Summary
Managers
- Booking of University Space
- Casual Employment of Students
- Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality
- Employment Accommodation
- Determination of Employment Relationship
- Discrimination and Harassment
- Furnishings, Fittings, Finishes & Artwork
- Key and Access Card Control
- Prevention of Violence in the Workplace
- Protection of Privacy Policy
- Printing, Duplicating and Photocopier Policy
- Purchasing Policy
- Code of Conduct Policy Summary