Fingerprinting services, community service leave, rehire separation reminder
Please review these announcements and reminders and share them, as applicable, with your colleagues.
Fingerprinting unavailable September 29
The VCU Police Department is in the midst of moving offices. Please note that fingerprinting services will not be available Thursday, September 29. Please plan accordingly.
Community Service Leave
Eligible faculty and staff may take up to 16 hours of community service leave each year to volunteer for area nonprofits; community service leave may be used to help at a child’s school. Using community service leave supports VCU’s strategic goal of becoming a national model for community engagement. Many eligible VCU employees have used this leave, offering thousands of hours of volunteer service in a variety of settings. Eligible faculty and staff should be encouraged to use their community service leave.
- Employees can use small blocks of community service leave and do not have to take eight hours at a time.
- Managers can support these special duties by adding university service-related activities to the “Special Assignments” section of the Employee Work Profile (EWP) for classified employees.
- Questions? Contact VCU Leave Administration at leave@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1712.
Reminder: 26-week separation required before rehiring faculty and staff separated from full-time or quasi-full time positions
Any VCU full-time or quasi-full-time (30 hours or more) faculty or classified staff member must have a minimum separation of at least 26 weeks before they can be rehired into other types of positions (e.g., wage, adjunct, graduate assistant) at VCU. For example, full-time classified staff members planning to apply for an hourly position must be separated from employment with VCU for at least 26-weeks prior to being offered and starting an hourly position. This policy change was released last spring by the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management, and restricts state institutions of higher education from rehiring any employee separated from a position that offered state employee health coverage into any position that does not offer the health coverage, unless and until there has been an employment separation of at least 26 weeks. The sole exception is for academic year faculty who separate in May but continue to be eligible for state employee health coverage through August. These separating faculty members may be hired into other positions for the summer while their health coverage eligibility remains in effect, as long as the subsequent position ends on or before August 31.