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    • Career development
      • Responsibilities
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        • Career pathing
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        • Goal setting
        • Tracking progress
        • Development opportunities
          • Career communities
      • Examples
      • FAQ
      • Career development planning
    • Compensation
      • University and Academic Professionals
        • Compensation plan design
        • Program administration
          • Establishing job structure
          • Job titles
          • Working titles
          • Market-based salary ranges
          • Base pay increases
        • Other pay actions
          • Non-base pay incentives
        • Roles and responsibilities
        • Evaluation of compensation
        • Job families and salary ranges
      • Classified staff
      • Job families and salary ranges
    • Staff Employee groups
    • Employee relations
      • University and Academic Professionals
        • Progressive discipline
        • Dispute resolution
          • Grievance procedure
        • Conducting a panel hearing
          • Panel review
          • Panel hearing
        • Workforce reduction
          • Severance
          • Priority and placement
          • Meeting with the HR professional
          • Benefits
          • Discussion guide for managers
      • Classified staff
      • Counseling referrals
      • Mediation
      • Violence prevention
      • Investigations
    • Employment
      • University and Academic Professionals
        • Executive search resources
          • Launch the search
          • Develop the posting
          • Advertise and recruit
          • Identify criteria for consistent evaluation
          • Prepare for the interview
          • Provide a positive candidate experience
          • Evaluate finalists and conclude the search
        • Recruitment and selection
          • Evaluating need
          • The position description
          • Interview panel and search committee
        • Create the posting
          • Posting type and hiring range
          • Applicant pool
          • Posting period
          • Restricted positions
          • Posting-specific questions and priority application dates
          • Underutilization goals
        • Screen applicants
          • Develop a criterion chart
          • Special considerations
          • Extend or reopen search
        • Actively recruit
          • Advertise
          • Recruit
        • Interview
          • Sample interview questions
        • Finalize recruitment
        • Check references
        • Extend the offer
        • Close the search process
        • Recruitment waiver
        • Roles and responsibilities
        • FAQ
        • Tools and resources
          • Diversity and inclusion
          • Search committee guide
          • Advertising sources
          • Checking references
          • Hiring incentives
          • Job Postings: Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive Workforce
      • Faculty
      • Veterans
      • Rehiring retirees
    • Leadership development
    • Leave and timekeeping
      • Overtime guidelines
        • Overtime FAQ
      • Family and Medical Leave Act
      • Timekeeping guides
      • Managing exempt employees
    • On-boarding and off-boarding
      • Separating faculty and staff
    • Performance management
      • Process overview
      • Performance planning
      • Ongoing feedback and coaching
      • Mid-year review
      • Annual review
      • First-year employees
      • Transfer employees
      • Appeals process
      • Videos
      • Mid-year goal and job changes
      • SMART Goal Library
    • Recognition and awards
      • University and Academic Professionals
      • Classified staff
    • Wage and volunteers
      • Hourly employees
      • Student workers
      • Summer workers
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VCU employment policies

Below is a list of HR related policies. Visit policy.vcu.edu for a searchable database of these and all other university policies. 

Affirmative action and equal opportunity

Alcohol and other drugs

Alternative dispute resolution

Board of Visitors approved university policies

Classified employee separation and discipline

Classified employment, promotion and transfer

Code of conduct

Computer and network resources use

Conflict of interest reporting requirements

Criminal conviction investigations

Duty to Report and Protection from Retaliation

Educational training opportunities

Employee and affiliate identification

Faculty bonus award

Family and medical leave

Intellectual property

Leave and time reporting

Maintenance and release of employment and personal information

Office closings

Prohibition of trafficking in persons

Return to work after illness/injury

Rules and procedures

Salary supplement

Secondary assignments (formerly overload jobs)

Security awareness orientation (safety training)

Sexual misconduct/violence and sex/gender discrimination

Smoking in the workplace

Solicitation

Terms & Conditions of Employment for UAP's Designated as Executives/Senior Admin 

Terrorism and security awareness training

Telecommuting

Threat Assessment and Prevention of Violence

Virginia Department of Human Resource Management  

  • Employee grievance procedures and rules
  • Office of employment dispute and resolution
  • Standards of conduct
  • Use of electronics and social media
  • Workplace harrassment 

Wage Employment (Hourly and Student Worker)

Wireless communication device allowance

Working@VCU: Great Place HR policies

 


Reporting

VCU employees and affiliates are encouraged to report concerns and policy violations. Use the VCU Helpline to ask questions, report incidents, and check the status of reports or questions. 

 

U.S. labor laws

Davis-Bacon Act and the Contract Work hours and Safety Standards Acts 
Earned Income Tax Credit (Internal Revenue Services) 
Employee Right for Workers with Disabilities/Special Minimum Wage  
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)  
E-Verify (U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration) 
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Fair Labor Standards Act exemption tests
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)  
Job Safety and Health – It’s The Law (Occupational Health and Safety Administration)
Overtime exemption tests under the Fair Labor Standards Act
Polygraph Protection Act  
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act (USERRA)   
Walsh-Healy Public Contracts Act 
Worker Rights Under Executive Order 13658 
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA) 

Virginia labor laws

Employer Earned Income Tax Credit Poster
Employer Virginia Credit for Low-Income Individuals (Virginia Dept. of Social Services) 
Equal Employment Opportunity 
Equal Employment Opportunity is for Everyone  
Job Safety and Health Protection (Virginia Department of Labor and Industry)  
Unemployment Insurance (Virginia Employment Commission)  
Workers' Compensation Insurance (Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission)

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