Personnel
General Administration and Services
The Yale University Archives seeks to collect documentation concerning personnel administration and services at Yale. Specific topics of interest include:
- Recruitment, hiring, evaluation, discipline, development, and training of Yale staff
- Personnel services and benefit programs
- Equal opportunity practices
- New policy, procedure, initiative development in any of the above areas
Archival Records
- Examples of records of interest to the Archives, regardless of format:
- Affirmative action and equal opportunity plans and compliance reports
- Aggregate analyses of positions, benefits, and compensation
- Annual reports
- Contracts and terms of agreement for benefit programs
- Classification, wage, and salary structures
- Employee manuals and handbooks for faculty, staff, and student employees
- Layoff plans and procedures
- Meeting minutes
- Mission and goal statements
- Organizational charts and position descriptions
- Policies, plans, and procedures
- Publications and websites (see Depositing Official Yale Publications)
Office of record
The Department of Human Resource Services, the School of Medicine Office of Human Resources, the Office of the Provost, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Business Support Center, Library Administrative Services, Environmental Health and Safety, the Office for Equal Opportunity Programs, academic department chairs, and departmental business managers maintain the record copy of documentation about personnel administration and services.
Labor Relations
The Yale University Archives seeks to collect documentation concerning labor relations between Yale and organized labor. Specific topics of interest include:
- Bargaining and arbitration
- Interactions between Yale and organized labor
- Development of unions at Yale, including, but not limited to, Local 34, Local 35, District 1199, the Yale Police Benevolent Association (YPBA), and the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO)
- Labor strikes, work stoppages and demonstrations
- New policy, procedure, initiative development in any of the above areas
Archival Records
Examples of records of interest to the Archives, regardless of format:
- Annual reports of the Labor Relations department
- Bargaining policies and procedures
- General studies and analyses of labor at Yale
- Labor compliance reports
- Meeting minutes and supporting materials of bargaining and arbitration meetings
- Photographs and audio-visual resources
- Press releases, clippings, and ephemera [e.g., t-shirts, stickers, etc.]
- Publications and websites (see Depositing Official Yale Publications)
- Speeches and remarks by University and labor leaders
- Strike contingency plans
- Union contracts and amendments
Office of record
The Labor Relations department and the graduate school dean maintain the record copy of documentation about labor relations at Yale.