Updates

This guide is printed every three years and provided to all students, faculty and staff. Any revisions made since last printing will be displayed below.

p. 38 (Labor Overload):  Students may work up to 20 hours per week during the January Short Term without need for overload approval. 

p. 64 (Suspension Appeal, Committee Option):  The Labor Program Council receives the appeal and renders a decision.  Three members of the Labor Program Council constitute a quorum for hearing appeals.  Labor Program staff cannot be voting members of a hearing body; they can, however, be present to offer background information.

p. 91: Department should be listed as “Mathematics and Computer Science”

p. 17, 21
The Labor Qualification Record (LQR) is now known as the Job Assignment Questionnaire (JAQ).

p. 32
Employment Before and After Enrollment

Students are not permitted to work in the Labor Program prior to enrollment.  Students who voluntarily withdraw from the College are not normally hired for a period of six months after withdrawal.  The reason for this practice is to avoid a circumstance whereby the prospect of permanent employment would lead a student to discontinue his or her degree program.  Exceptions may be considered by the Director of People Services in consultation with the Dean of Labor.  Students who are suspended from the College may not be hired until both the six-month waiting period and the period of suspension have expired.

p. 33 
Essential Labor

Many labor departments depend upon their students to maintain minimal function.  While departments are encouraged to release students from their duties for participation in college-wide events (Mountain Day, Labor Day, etc.), those with essential labor are not required to dismiss students altogether.  Most departments can manage this situation through careful planning and distribution of student labor so that everyone can participate in some aspect of the event.  Students should not be scheduled to provide “coverage” so that staff can attend such events in their place.  In rare cases, academic requirements are scheduled outside of normal class hours (e.g., General Education Writing Proficiency Exam for first-year students, College-Wide Symposium ½ day).  In these cases, supervisors must adapt their schedules to provide for release.  Course study sessions or extra credit assignments are not considered requirements for the purpose of labor dismissal, though supervisors are encouraged to be responsive to such requests whenever practical. 

p. 35
Holidays and Days of Observance

Mountain Day, New Year’s Day, Labor Day, Good Friday 1/2 day, Memorial Day, July 4:  Labor is dismissed unless students are essential to a department’s operation
College-Wide Symposium ½ day:  labor is dismissed at 12:00 for participation in scheduled events and resumes at the end of the Symposium
Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays and Spring Break:  labor is dismissed unless a special contract is signed
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday:  students work as usual but participation in events is encouraged
Reading Periods and Final Exams:  students work as usual, though schedules may need to be adjusted

p. 35
Hour Requirement

p. 46
Position Codes
Each department has a list of position codes that correspond to job titles and job descriptions (e.g., S12345).  It is not necessary to assign each student a different code; rather, each student should be assigned the code that reflects the job s/he performs.  This may mean that multiple students are assigned the same code. 

Appendix
New supervisors:
Admissions- Emily Potter
Agriculture- Sarah Paulson
Boone Tavern- Gary McCormick
Child Development Lab- Denise Scheler
Conference Services- Amanda Ott
Financial Aid- Brandi Tauffener
International Center- Kay Kelly
Nursing- Teresa Jefferson