Guidelines around hiring students as employees and employees as students
The following policy statements are intended to clarify the Department of Human Resources' position with respect to certain "student vs employee" issues. The policies evolved from several general premises:
- A person is either "primarily a student" or "primarily an employee," and it makes sense to keep "student-primacy" status separate and distinct from "employee-primacy" status.
- A person may not be on both the student payroll and the non-student payroll simultaneously.
- We want to avoid situations where two students are doing essentially the same work (e.g., department receptionist), but one is paid a "student job" rate while working next to another student hired through the Temp Pool who is receiving a higher rate.
- We do not want to compete against ourselves in seeking to fill positions.
- We do not want to be paying for benefits for our own students.
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Undergraduate Students
Q:听May undergraduate day school students be hired into regular employee positions?
A:听No.
Q:听May employees work in student jobs?
A:听No.
Graduate Students
Q:听May a full-time graduate student be hired into:
- a full-time benefits-eligible position?
- a part-time benefits-eligible position?
- a non-benefits-eligible position (including the Temp Pool)?
A:听Generally, a full-time graduate student will be deemed "primarily a student" and will not be eligible for hire into a regular employee position, whether part-time or full-time, and whether benefits-eligible or not.
Exception:听A graduate student with appropriate credentials could be hired into a temporary, non-benefits-eligible position (e.g., Temp Pool) during the summer period, provided the person is not in a student position simultaneously.
Q:听May a graduate student enrolled for 6 credits or less be hired into:
- a full-time benefits-eligible position?
- a part-time benefits-eligible position?
- a non-benefits-eligible position (including the Temp Pool)?
A:听A graduate student taking courses totalling six credits or less, who is classified by his/her school as a part-time student, may be considered for a part-time or a full-time regular (non-student) position, whether benefits-eligible or not. (Note:听A student en