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  • Only managers/resource administrators or delegates can create employee resource records and submit them for approval from HR. Records are released for computer account creation once HR approves. Only HR can terminate a computer account/employment for employees.

  • Resource administrators, delegates, and ‘delegates for contractors’ can create and submit contractor resource records. No approval is required from HR. Records go immediately for computer account creation. This same group can terminate a computer account/employment for contractors.

More about types of resources

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titleHow to know which type of resource you need to chooseExpand this section for details about types of resources

Choose from these types

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Managed by manager/resource administrator?

Managed by delegate?

Managed by 'delegate for contractor?

HR approval required

Academic Contractor

  • paid by Finance

  • Associate Faculty, facilitators, Thesis and Dissertation supervisors, etc.

(tick)

(tick)

(tick)

Contractor

  • paid by Finance

  • hired for non-academic work

  • includes project managers, certain specialists, etc.

(tick)

(tick)

(tick)

CUPE

  • paid by Payroll

  • in the employee (CUPE) union

(tick)

(tick)

(tick)

Exempt

  • paid by Payroll

  • non-union employees

(tick)

(tick)

(tick)

Guest

  • not paid

  • Board of Governors, guest speakers, etc.

(tick)

(tick)

(tick)

Research

  • paid by Payroll

  • hired specifically for research work

(tick)

(tick)

(tick)

RRUFA

  • paid by payroll

  • members of the faculty (RRUFA) union

(tick)

(tick)

(tick)

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First name

Preferred Name

Last Name

Correct?

Robert

Bob

Smith

Yes! (tick)

Robert

Bob Smith

Robert

No. ❌

In the ‘preferred name' field, please enter just the name by which the person wants to be called, like ‘Bob’.

Info

If you inadvertently create a resource with the wrong name or wrong spelling, initiate correct that mistake by initiating the name change processto get it fixed. Once .

It may seem that entering a new record is the fast way around such a mistake but that will cause problems because once a resource has been created, the identifiers for that person are integrated throughout our systems and cannot be deleted anymore. The only way to fix the mistake is to do a name change on the records. Creating a second record results in a second set of identifiers.

Information about the fields on the form

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-1- The personal email address must be unique to this person
(Often, our employees and contractors were students first. If this person is/was a student, they’ll have an email address on file. The email address you provide here must be different from that one. We know this is the same person but they have two identities here and each needs a unique email address.)

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