Author Archives: Doug Dye

2010 Special Initiatives Fund Award

By Doug Dye | Published: May 18, 2010
The Special Initiatives Fund (SIF) was created in 2009 by the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Staff Compensation (PACSC) for a two-year trial period. With a total budget of approximately $65,000 in annual funding, it is designed to support special projects suggested by staff in the university support group. For more information, please go to: http://staffexcellence.uwaterloo.ca/sif.html [...]
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SIF Application Deadline

By Doug Dye | Published: March 8, 2010
Greetings, I would like to remind all USG support staff (including Housekeepers and Janitors) at UW that the deadline for applying for funds from the Special Initiative Fund (SIF) is fast approaching. All applications must be received by 4:30pm on March 31, 2010. Funding decisions will be made by the Staff Excellence Fund sub-committee by [...]
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6th Decade Plan and Staff

By Doug Dye | Published: February 11, 2010
Greetings, I am sure by now that most staff at UW have heard at least a reference to the 6th Decade Plan. For those that haven’t, or for those that have only a passing knowledge of the document, the 6th Decade Plan is the guiding general principles of the direction that UW is going in [...]
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CoF Positions get improved benefits

By Doug Dye | Published: January 21, 2010
Contingent On Funding Positions to Get Coverage Under Section 7 and Appendix B of Policy 18: Staff Employment The UW Staff Association has recently worked with UW to improve the benefits for employees at UW that are in contingent upon funding (CoF) positions.  Until now, positions that were CoF were not covered under section 7 [...]
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