See below for details on the two types of leave that student employees are eligible for.

Paid Sick Leave

In compliance with the Colorado’s Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA), non-benefited employees (including hourly student employees) earn one hour of paid sick leave for every thirty hours worked. GXAs accrue a flat amount of four hours of paid sick leave each month. Resident Assistants do not accrue leave for their RA role due to receiving compensation in the form of housing. Resident Assistants that perform hourly Desk Assistant duties earn one hour of paid sick leave for every thirty hours worked as a Desk Assistant.

Allowable Reasons for Paid Sick Leave

Sick leave can be used for the following, an employee:

• Has a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition that prevents the employee from working
• Needs to obtain a medical diagnosis, care, or treatment of a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition
• Needs to obtain preventive medical care
• The employee needs to care for a family member who:
  • Has a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition 
  • Needs to obtain a medical diagnosis, care, or treatment of a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition
  • Needs to obtain preventive medical care
• The employee or the employee’s family member has been the victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or harassment and the use of leave is to:
  • Seek medical attention for the employee or the employee’s family member to recover from a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition caused by the domestic abuse, sexual assault, or harassment
  • Obtain services from a victim services organization
  • Obtain mental health or other counseling
  • Seek relocation due to the domestic abuse, sexual assault, or harassment
  • Seek legal services, including preparation for or participation in a civil or criminal proceeding relating to or resulting from the domestic abuse, sexual assault, or harassment
• Is grieving or attending the funeral or memorial service after the death of a family member
• Is caring for a family member whose school or place of care has been closed because of inclement weather
• Is evacuating their residence because of inclement weather or loss of power or water

The maximum number of paid sick hours student employees can accrue is forty-eight hours. Student employees should provide as much notice as possible to their supervisor if they need to use sick leave. If an employee is absent for more than four days, they will be required to provide documentation to support the use of sick leave. For more information on sick leave, see here (requires DU login).

Colorado FAMLI Leave Program

The FAMLI program provides all eligible employees a portion of their weekly salary for up to 12 weeks of leave to care for themselves or a family member, with an additional four weeks of leave for complications during pregnancy or childbirth. FAMLI leave can be used by all employees (including student employees) who work and reside in Colorado who have earned at least $2,500 in wages over a period of about a year. Employees may also receive job protection through FAMLI after 180 days of employment.

FAMLI will provide 12-16 weeks of paid leave for the following events:

• To manage their own serious health condition.
• To care for a family member with a serious health condition.
• To care for a new child (within the first year of birth, foster placement or adoption).
• To make arrangements for military deployments.
• To address immediate safety needs and impact of domestic violence or sexual assault.

Topics include:

Career & Self-Development:

• Creating Your Career Narrative: Students will identify transferable career skills they use in their student employment and learn how to communicate the value of these skills to future employers through resumes, cover letters, and interviews. As part of this process, students will  how to situate themselves within a career narrative leading to their professional goals as well as continual personal, academic, and professional learning, awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses. 
• Resumes, Cover Letters, or Interviewing: Students will advance their skills in resume and cover letter writing, interviewing, and/or networking. 
• How to Find a Student Job: In this training, students will learn how to identify and apply to student employment positions relevant to their needs and their professional goals.  
• Performance Evaluations: Students will learn how to prepare for feedback and performance reviews, how to receive both positive and negative feedback, and how to implement this feedback moving forward. 

Communication:

• Presentation Skills: Students will find their unique voice, learn strategies for coping with public speaking anxiety, and build skills for crafting engaging and inclusive presentations. Students will learn how to clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts, and perspectives.
• Giving and Receiving Feedback: Students will identify their relationship to feedback and build skills for both giving and receiving it in a constructive and sustainable way.

Critical Thinking:

• Program & Event Planning: Student employees will learn an overall framework for planning, implementing, and assessing programs and/or events and practice applying it to their work.
• Workplace Decision Making: Student employees will identify their decision-making style and how to apply it to challenging situations in the workplace. Students will learn to identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information.

Equity & Inclusion:

• International Students & Work On-Campus: International students face unique circumstances in applying to and working in student employment roles, but it is definitely possible! In this session, international students will learn about both relevant regulations and U.S. job application and workplace norms.
• Racial Wellbeing in the Workplace: In this training, originally developed and facilitated by Program Assistant Raissa Ames (MSW ’22), student employees will build the skills to protect their wellbeing as racialized people and to support their coworkers.
• White Supremacy Culture in the Workplace: In this training, based on research by Program Assistant Raissa Ames (MSW ’22), students employees will identify how elements of white supremacy culture show up in their workplace and how to engage with one another differently.

Leadership:

• Leading at All Levels: Students will learn how to lead and be heard from any institutional level, while acting in the interest of living, learning, and working communities.
• Managing Multiple Roles: Students will engage with the challenges of being both student and employee, especially in a peer-facing role. Students will learn how to manage those competing roles using boundaries and communication, while understanding and demonstrating effective work habits.

Professionalism:

• Authentic Professionalism: Students will learn how to identify professionalism norms in their workplace and develop strategies for navigating their personal and professional identities, while demonstrating the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people of different local and global cultures.
• Managing Wellbeing & Work: Students will learn about the common factors that impact student employee wellbeing, and identify strategies for managing and communicating about their stress and overall wellbeing. 

Teamwork:

• Navigating Conflict: Student will learn strategies for dealing with work place conflict with both peers and supervisors, while building and maintaining collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals. Students will also learn about campus resources that can assist them through these conflicts.
• Supervising Up: Students will identify their own workstyle, communication style, and conflict style. Student will learn how these align with their supervisors, while recognizing and capitalizing on personal and team strengths to achieve goals and experiences.

Technology:

• Working Remotely: Students will understand common challenges in remote work and will learn to leverage tools for managing this work efficiently and maintain community.
• Outlook for Beginners: Tips and tricks from our favorite mailing system! Students will understand and leverage the basic functions of outlook to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks, and accomplish goals. Special features covered include quick parts, delay send, and more. Included in this training will be email writing basics.

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Create Your Account | Video Instructions

1. If you have not created an account previously, go to the employer portal for PCO (https://du.12twenty.com/hire) and select “sign up for an account” at the bottom left corner of the screen.
2. Enter your contact information, including:
   • Name, password (follow password requirements), address, country, city, postal code, your job title, phone number.
   • Employer
     • Use the following naming convention: “University of Denver – DU – name of your department/division”.
     • Example: “University of Denver – DU – Accounting Department.”
     • Department names will auto-populate, so if your department appears, please select the auto-populated department name rather than making a new one!
3. Select “create account“. You will be emailed a verification code. Check both your primary inbox and your spam folder. Enter this code. Login into your account. Save the employer portal URL and your password.

Post Positions | Video Instructions

1. After logging into the employer portal of PCO, click “Post a Job” on the homepage of PCO.
2. Complete all required categories using the Job Posting Template. 
3. For support in creating an inclusive job posting and/or job description, please reach out to Kristin Deal, Assistant Vice Chancellor, kristin.deal@du.edu or inclusion@du.edu.

Duplicate Job Post | Video Instructions

Please do not reuse old job posts to collect new applicants in a new school year. Instead duplicate the post to save you time. It also helps clean up your post and starts your applicant pool back at zero.

1. After logging into employer portal of PCO, find and click on the old, closed job posting.
2. In the upper right corner, select the three dots shown. Select “Duplicate”.
3. From there, select “Edit” and update the job posting to reflect any changes to the job.
4. Submit for approval.

Review Applicants | Video Instructions

1. Log into the employer portal of PCO and find your job posting by selecting “Job Board” on the left side of the screen.
2. Type the Job Title in the search box to quickly locate your job and select job.
3. Select “Applicants” (listed next to Job Posting in the middle of the screen).
4. Review one resume at a time by selecting “Resume” under the Application column or review all resumes by downloading the Application Package.
   • Select the three dots toward the right side of the page, located next to results.
   • Select “Download All Application Packages“. In the “Share this Packet” field, enter all email addresses you’d like to share the applications with (example: hiring committee or small group).
5. For positions that work-study funded only, review work-study eligibility in the Work-Study Offered column.
6. Reach out to student candidates via email to schedule interviews.

Hire Students | Video Instructions

Once candidates have been interviewed and a final candidate is selected, offer the job to the candidate in writing (email is sufficient). Once the candidate has accepted, follow the steps in the Hiring Checklist.

Contact Student Employment at stuemp@du.edu with any questions.

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