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Salary review, autumn 2020

The corona pandemic has led to the parties to the Agreement on Industrial Development and Wage Formation, which sets the benchmark for salary increases in Sweden, deciding to postpone negotiations about salary. This decision affects the salary review at LiU.

Press briefing sets spotlight on student parties

The spread of infection of Covid-19 is increasing, and we are seeing outbreaks of infection in several towns with significant student populations, often linked to student parties. The government press briefing on Friday afternoon was for this reason directed to the more than 400,000 students in Sweden.

Breakout rooms now available in Teams

Break a meeting up into smaller groups, discuss and reconvene.

Zenit: Moving in

The refurbishment of Zenit to a building for collaboration is now complete and the International Affairs and Collaborations Division (IFSA), with its five units and around 70 co-workers, has moved in.

Nailed it!

Three doctoral students have so far taken the opportunity offered by the library to give a talk about their thesis as part of the posting event. The library hopes that the idea will catch on.

New career support programme heading for success

Thirty-one lucky students were chosen to participate in LiU:s International Office new career support programme that started at Campus Valla in September.

Buses seeking researchers

The two autonomous buses that service Campus Valla are part of the ELIN project, which is a joint initiative between LiU and the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute.

Gradual return to campus mode to continue

The gradual return from distance mode to campus mode will continue during the latter part of the autumn term. Restrictions will, however, remain in place to prevent an increase in the spread of coronavirus among students and co-workers.

New telephony supplier

LiU’s new contract for telephony services will come into force in February 2021. Telenor has been awarded the contract. Several of the requests that co-workers have put forward will be met in the new contract.

HR to digitalise forms

We have now started to use digital forms “Holiday – Reclaim” and “Resigning”. This means that after 1 October you must log into the Primula system if you want to file a case for either of these circumstances.

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