- Financial Education Seminars: These ½-day seminars are for all regular employees wherever you are in your career path, to help you improve your financial roadmap and achieve your financial goals, whatever they may be. Visit: https://www.uvic.ca/hr/services/home/compensation/benefits/planningahead/index.php We will be offering another session in the Spring of 2017.
- Employee Family Assistance Program – Optum offers a variety of financial resources including: counselling, articles and budgeting sheets as well as webinars. In fact, they have a free webinar next month specifically regarding budgeting for 2017: You can find more info here: https://www.uvic.ca/hr/services/home/health/employee-and-family-assistance-program/ and register for the webinar here: https://www.uvic.ca/hr/assets/docs/health%20promotion/OptumCalendar.pdf
- Lynda.com has free online courses that are available for Uvic all employees. In particular, you may be interested in this one: https://www.lynda.com/Personal-Finance-tips/Financial-Wellness-Managing-Personal-Cash-Flow/373523-2.html?org=uvic.ca
- Purchasing Discounts and subsidies:
- The university provides a subsidized rate to CARSA gym and free access to the McKinnon gym and pool for employees
- Purchasing Services established a number of pricing agreements that may also be used by UVic staff and Faculty for personal use. They can be found here: https://www.uvic.ca/purchasing/resources/discount/index.php