Northern has created a Covid-19 Student Worker Policy to outline a plan to help prevent the spread of Covid-19 among NSU faculty and staff and student workers, including work-study, student labor, and graduate assistants.
All student workers are asked to self-monitoring for symptoms at the beginning of each shift. Departments and offices that have a large number of student workers are encouraged to erect screening stations, including common thermometers where students can self-screen before each shift. Student workers are recommended to take a mask with them to work each shift so they can wear it according to current guidelines at Masks on Campus.
Student workers who have symptoms of Covid-19 are not allowed to work their shift and are asked to follow the steps outlined in What If I Get Sick?.
Staff and faculty who share workspaces with student workers are asked to adjust the workspace layout so that:
- Student workers do not share offices with staff and faculty. Move work study/student labor/graduate assistant workstations (including computers, keyboards and phones) to open offices, storage rooms, lounges, or work rooms.
- When students, faculty or staff need to share workspace, workstations should be distanced and not shared.
- Student workers should not share workstations (including computers, keyboards and phones) with staff and faculty. If a student worker needs to use a staff or faculty member’s workstation, they are required to sanitize the work station immediately after use and then sanitize their hands.
- Masks should be worn according to current guidelines at Masks on Campus.
Student workers who need to share workstations should be staggered so they do not work at the same time, whenever possible. They are also required to sanitize their work stations (computer, keyboard, phone) at the beginning and the end of their shift (please follow Policy 9.3 when sanitizing work stations and be sure not to use disinfecting wipes on screens).
Student workers may use shared office equipment, including printers, copiers and scanners, and are required to sanitize the commonly used equipment at the end of use and then sanitize their hands. Common destinations, including faculty mailboxes and shared printers, may be relocated from staff offices to other locations to slow or dissuade traffic in and through staff offices.
Faculty and staff are encouraged to send print jobs electronically to the campus print shop; contact Ryan Schwab. The print shop will set up a no-contact pickup table in its east side vestibule and encourage community members to pick up print work from the no-contact table. The print shop will post signs on the west door to dissuade staff and faculty from using the west door of the print shop. If students, faculty or staff need to use the printers at the print shop, they are required to use hand sanitizer before and after using equipment. Masks should be worn according to current guidelines at Masks on Campus.
Student workers can make up hours they miss as a result of quarantine, self-isolation or illness. When making up hours, work-study students, student labor students and graduate assistants must work fewer than 20 hours a week when classes are in session. When classes are not in session (including winter break, spring break, summer break) student workers can work up to 40 hours a week to make up hours missed as a result of quarantine or illness. Graduate assistants who are healthy and able to work remotely during quarantine or self-isolation may do so at the discretion of their supervisor.
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