Employee Handbook
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Employee Services
Communications
As an employer, SIBCR strives to keep its employees well informed. This can be accomplished when the employee keeps SIBCR up-to-date on his or her address, preferred email address and telephone number. It is important that the employee read all memos and announcements from SIBCR to stay informed.
Email is often used for rapid dissemination of information. Some notices of personnel and other issues are mailed with the Leave and Earnings Statements to the employee’s home address each pay period. Bulletin boards are located in the SIBCR office to keep employees informed of various items of interest; they are used to communicate announcements and information required by law and other official postings.
Facilities
Employee Parking: VAPSHCS assigns all employees who drive to work a parking decal, which must be displayed on their vehicles while they are parked on VA property. Employee parking spaces are provided in the parking lot. Parking for employees in these parking spaces is on a first-come, first-served basis. Spaces reserved for patients, carpools, disabled employees and visitors are to be honored. Employees are urged to lock their cars while parked. SIBCR does not assume responsibility for vehicles or their contents in these parking areas.
Personal Mail: Employees may not use SIBCR’s name, address, envelopes, or letterhead for personal correspondence; this includes correspondence of a political nature.
Personal Possessions: SIBCR does not assume responsibility for any theft of or damage to the personal belongings of employees. Office doors should be locked when a room is unoccupied. SIBCR reserves the right to search an employee’s desk, locker, work space or personal belongings brought onto VAPSHCS at any time
Long Distance Phone Calls: To place work-related long distance phone calls employees must obtain a PIN from the VAPSHCS R&D Administrative Office.