Effective March 1, 2024, the process for submitting and monitoring background checks for students, volunteers, and contractors has changed. This change was previewed during the February 8th HR Community of Practice (slides available in the CoP Teams site). Beginning March 1, 2024, departments will use the Student and Volunteer Background Check Tool to initiate and track the progress of checks for students, volunteers, and contractors. New background check requests made by email after the tool’s launch will be returned with instructions…
Due to Sterling Check’s acquisition of A-Check America, UW’s background check vendor, there will be certain changes to background check business processes that will take effect this spring. In March, Sterling will retire the A-Check brand and migrate UW’s services to Sterling’s business platforms. We believe the changes below, enabled by Sterling’s service model, will create efficiencies for departmental HR and finance teams and streamline the hiring process. Sterling will run all prehire background checks. Currently, Campus Recruitment runs the…
Each January, the Annual Attendance Incentive Program allows UW employees whose sick time off balances exceed 480 hours as of January 1 to be compensated at 25% value for any accrued and unused sick time off accumulated during the previous calendar year. The Annual Attendance Incentive Program is ONLY available during the month of January and is promoted in tomorrow’s UW Insider e-newsletter with a reminder in the January 17 issue. Medical Centers/Shared Services/ALNW/FPPS/UW Medicine Primary Care Clinics Employees: Employees must complete the [form id=”394″ site=”4″] form to…
Effective January 1, 2024, the UW’s minimum wage will increase from $18.69 per hour to $19.97 per hour following the City of Seattle minimum wage. This change applies to all positions on the Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma campuses except for student assistants in Tacoma. Read more: https://hr.uw.edu/comp/2023/10/16/january-1-2024-minimum-wage-increase/
In ongoing effort to build an even more inclusive working environment, the UWHR are jointly piloting functionality that will translate most content on the UWHR websites into eleven of the most common languages spoken by our employees: Amharic Chinese (Simplified) Filipino Hmong Japanese Khmer Korean Lao Spanish Thai Vietnamese Though we know many of our UW employees speak Tigrinya, Tigrinya translation is not currently available; we are hopeful this language will become available soon. Employees can select their preferred language…
Last updated: June 8, 2022 The Temporary Staff Helper (TSH) hourly-paid job profile (job code 11863) will be abolished effective July 1, 2022 in preparation of new state rules driven by changes in Washington State law. Beginning January 1, 2022, instead of using TSH for hard-to-classify hourly work that does not meet a pro staff civil service exemption, departments will need to use an existing classified staff hourly job profile or professional staff hourly limited term appointment (job code 11850)….
Help ensure that your unit is prepared for the possibility of severe weather or other events that could disrupt transportation locally, or require the University to temporarily suspend non-essential operations. Review the following information and be prepared to help your employees understand leave use and compensation practices during severe weather or when the UW temporarily suspends non-essential operations. UW Inclement Weather Policy applies when the University is in operation, but an individual employee requests time off because local weather conditions cause transportation problems or hazardous conditions. UW Suspended Operations Policy applies…