Effective November 2013, British Columbia’s Workers Compensation Act was amended to include three new policies addressing workplace bullying & harassment. Sections 115, 116 and 117 of the Act set out the general duties of employers, workers and supervisors.

Who Should Take the Training Course?
The new legislation requires all UBC Faculty & Staff (including students employed by the University) to receive training about the new workplace bullying and harassment policies and requirements on how to recognize, prevent, and address workplace bullying & harassment.

https://blogs.ubc.ca/lfsta/bullying-harassment-certificate-requirement/

Please scan and email a copy of your Certificate of Completion to the LFS Grad Office (lfs.ta@ubc.ca) ASAP. TA’s may claim a maximum of 30 minutes in order to complete the online course.

Please note, unlike the Schedule B form, you only need to complete the Bullying & Harassment Training Course once as a UBC employee.  Unfortunately, there is no centralized record keeping for this requirement so you may need to demonstrate completion of this course by each and every department you are employed through!!  I had one TA last year who had 4 partial TA’ship over both terms in 4 different departments – she was required to submit her certificate to all 4!!  Hopefully, at some point, there will be a more efficient way of handling this but in the meantime, I have attached a list of all of our returning TA’s who have already completed this requirement by sending me their certificate during 2014 Winter Session.  These TA’s do not have to resubmit their certificates.  I will need a certificate from everyone else on the list.

Could you please complete this requirement (both term 1 and term 2 TA’s) and send me your certificate ASAP so that I don’t have to send reminders all fall and winter…..PLEASE?!