You may have occasionally come across people with a Canterbury Card that deems them to be “pre-employees” – these people came to our attention because their cards did not have barcodes. Pre-employees are usually new staff members, generally from overseas, who are employed by UC as continuing or fixed term staff but currently don’t have IRD numbers or bank accounts. Historically, the records for these people came through to the Library as casuals and, as per Library policy, they were not allocated library accounts. As this does not truly reflect their actual employment HR have made a change and pre-employees records now come through to the Library as fixed term staff and, as per Library policy, they have been allocated library accounts on Horizon with normal staff privileges.

It is assumed that their cards will now have barcodes and so pre-employees will never come to our notice. If you discover otherwise, please let me and know and I will follow up.