CIRES Annual Summary of Accomplishments (ASA) are due on June 30. Two recorded training sessions are offered. For employees working embedded in the NOAA labs. Recording can be viewed here. Slides at the link below. For employees who work on CU campus: recording can be viewed here. Slides are at the link below. These trainings… Read More
As part of the revised Sexual Misconduct, Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking Policy that went into effect Aug. 14, 2020, all CU employees are required to complete the online Discrimination and Sexual Misconduct policy training course. The deadline was September 18, 2020. CIRES HR audit shows many are still not up-to-date with this training. Waleed will be begin reaching… Read More
Avoid getting a big packet of benefits notices and forms in the mail from CU this year. With digital delivery, these notices are delivered via email and store electronically in your employee portal. Enroll in digital delivery for your 2021 notices by Feb. 1. Why do I receive these forms and notices? The University of Colorado is legally required to provide… Read More
Please join CIRES and CU HR for a four part supervisor training series. Appropriate for new and continuing supervisors. Each Wednesday starting on February 10 at 10:00 am. Sessions will be approximately an hour. All sessions will be recorded and posted on insideCIRES Admin News blog as well. Topics and links below. Federal partners are… Read More
Office of Faculty Affairs recently sent out guidance to all faculty asking for completion of the FRPA. CIRES does not require completion of the FRPA for our research faculty at this time. The FRPA is primarily intended for tenure-track faculty and full-time instructors. CIRES employees are currently required to complete the DEPA and Annual Summary of Accomplishments each year, which… Read More
CIRES users are currently being targeted by a fraudulent email that appears to come from CIRES Director, Waleed Abdalati but is coming from the email: waleed.abdalati.colorado.edu22@gmail.com The Subject Line is listed as “Available ?” Please do not reply to this email and simply delete it. If you are ever suspicious of an email, please do not… Read More
Effective January 1, 2021, employees will be allowed to utilize their personal sick leave for purposes of COVID-related self-isolation due to exposure, illness, caretaking of a family member with COVID, or to care for a child whose childcare facility or school is closed due to the public health emergency. If an employee in need does not have… Read More
Calendar pickup next week, five locations CIRES 2021 calendars feature beautiful photography by you and your colleagues! Pick up your calendar and wave hi to a CIRES colleague while you do! If you cannot make the times/locations below, please email Katy Human, and we’ll try to add another distribution slot or two. One calendar per person,… Read More
The Colorado legislature passed the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees at a rate of 1 hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked. At CU, this will affect biweekly employees and those on contracts, including undergraduate students, temporary employees, and GRAs. Hiring managers can… Read More
Dear CIRES Colleagues who work at NOAA, As many of you are likely aware, the U.S. House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown tomorrow, by extending current agency funding levels through next Friday, December 18. News outlets report the Senate is likely to do the same. CIRES will be monitoring the situation… Read More
