Daily Bulletin, Wednesday, January 18, 1995

POLICY 18, the revised policy on staff employment at UW, is now public
and now in effect.  You can find the text of it on UWinfo: there's a
quick pointer under "Documents of Current Interest", and it's also in 
its predictable place under "Policies, Procedures, and Other Official
Documents".  A limited number of paper copies are available on campus.

What's new in the policy is Section VII, "Impact of Organizational Change
on Staff Positions".  It says, "The University may be required to consider
organizational change due to the introduction of new technology,
departmental redesign, or financial considerations."   Here's a very brief 
summary of its two main parts:

     Principles of organizational change: before people's jobs can be
     shuffled there must be "open internal consultation", and approval
     by the dean or associate provost and by the provost.  A change
     that means the elimination of someone's job must also be "reviewed"
     by the Staff Relations Committee.

     Provisions for loss of employment: instead of "working notice" as in
     the past, a staff member being laid off would receive "termination
     pay" based on how long he or she has worked at UW.  The entitlement
     for a five-year staff member is 3.5 months; for a 20-year staffer,
     11 months.  On top of that comes "severance pay" as required by
     law.  A laid-off staff member would continue to have "internal status"
     to compete for jobs on campus, for a period of some months.

The staff relations committee, which developed the revised policy, has 
sent an explanatory memo to staff across campus; it should be delivered this 
morning, and I am also putting it on UWinfo under "Documents of Current 
Interest".

And there's more about Policy 18 on the front page of today's Gazette --
which will be getting to campus a bit late, because the delivery truck
broke down.

GRADE REPORTS from the fall term are available starting today, unless
you're in mathematics (in which case you have to wait until January
26).  Here's where full-time students can get them:

     Arts, applied health studies, science, environmental studies:
     second floor of Needles Hall.

     Engineering: first year, the Year 1 Engineering office; fourth
     year, department offices.

     Independent studies: the IS office in the PAS building.

     St. Jerome's and Renison: at the college.

Part-time students, and co-op students now on work term, will be getting
their grade reports in the mail.

THE HAGEY LECTURE by John Polanyi will be given in the Humanities Theatre
tonight at 8 p.m.  Title: "Research in Jeopardy -- Some Thoughts Concerning
Science Policy".  The Hagey Lectures are marking their 25th anniversary
as UW's premier lecture series, and there should be a good crowd to mark
the occasion, as just a few tickets were left at last report.

CLUBS DAYS continue today and tomorrow, a chance to find out about
everything from politics to chess.  Hours: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Clubs Days
are taking place in the Davis Centre great hall, in spite of what I said
in yesterday's bulletin about the Campus Centre.  (Shows what happens
when I believe written announcements from the Federation of Students!)

Among the clubs that are in business this term is the African Students
Association, which has its first general meeting set for 6 p.m. today
in Math and Computer room 2034.

VOICE MAIL is still getting back to normal after Monday's computer crash.
If your mailbox was among those affected, and you can't get logged on,
your password has probably been reset to be the same as your extension
number, says Joan Wiley, director of telephone services.

VENTILATION improvements are under way in the laboratory wing of Engineering 
2, the plant operations department says.  During the construction, air 
circulation will be turned off in that building today and Thursday (second 
floor) and Friday through Monday (first floor).

THE BASKETBALL Athenas and Warriors face Wilfrid Laurier University in a
doubleheader tonight in the Physical Activities Complex: women at 6 p.m.,
men at 8 p.m.  UW students get in free; general admission is $6.  Among
the many promotions the athletics department is launching this season will
be shoot-out competitions at half-time of both games.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
888-4567 ext. 3004      credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca