Slide 1

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 2

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 3

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
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Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
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Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
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presentation?
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Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

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end the PowerPoint
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Handbook

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Holidays

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Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 4

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 5

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
Absence Management
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Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 6

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 7

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
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Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
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International Guests
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Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Guidelines
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Handbook

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Part 1
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Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
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Staff development
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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Social counselling Toivanen

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Time Management (BIXI)
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Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 8

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 9

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

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Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 10

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
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Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
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Social counselling Toivanen

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No

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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
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Part 1
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

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Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
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presentation?
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Social counselling Toivanen

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Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

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Documents (HR)
Holidays

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Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
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Handbook

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Documents (HR)
Holidays

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Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 11

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 12

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
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Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
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Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
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Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
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Handbook

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Documents (HR)
Holidays

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end the PowerPoint
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Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 13

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
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Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 14

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
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Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
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Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
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Change personnel data
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Staff Committee
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Part 1
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
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International Guests
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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
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presentation?
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Social counselling Toivanen

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Handbook

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Part 1
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
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Social counselling Toivanen

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Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 15

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
Absence Management
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Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
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Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 16

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 17

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
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Guidelines
Passwords

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Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
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Part 1
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

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Homepage (HR)
International Guests
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Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
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Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 18

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 19

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

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And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 20

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
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Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
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Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
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Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
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Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
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Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
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Handbook

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Part 1
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Holidays

Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4
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Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 21

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
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Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
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Holidays

Part 2
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Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
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IT-Guidelines
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4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 22

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
Absence Management
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Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
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Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 23

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 24

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
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Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Guidelines
Passwords

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Regulation and Management
Handbook

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Part 1
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
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Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
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Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 25

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Procedures (HR)
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management
Handbook

Social counselling Toivanen
3/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
Right through Empa
Regulation and Management Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 26

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
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Holidays

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Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
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IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 27

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

Yes

No

Part 4
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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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endPartthe
PowerPoint
3
Procedures (HR)
presentation?
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Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committee
2/4

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
Part 3
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Handbook

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Part 1
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
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Staff Committe

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Part 3
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Part 4
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Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations

Time Management (Bixi)
Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 28

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)






Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).













Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance


SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)




For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:







HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office


Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs


Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.








Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

2/4

The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

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Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
1/4

Part 1
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Holidays

Part 2
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endPartthe
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Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
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Change personnel data
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Staff Committee
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Part 1
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
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end the PowerPoint
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Handbook

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Emergency Medical Services
IT-Guidelines
Passwords
4/4

And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources


Slide 29

Willkommen
Welcome
Benvenuti
Bienvenue

This presentation will give you some insight into the wide-ranging activities of
Empa.
It will answer the most important questions related to hiring and will provide you
with access to further sources of information.

Human Resources

Welcome to Empa

It is Empa’s mission to build bridges
IWith
warmly
Empa’s
welcome
mission
youas
tounderlying
Empa. You no
between scientific knowledge and practical
doubt
principle,
have
I wish
numerous
you a successful
expectations
start
andin an
application by means of first class material
questions.
exciting, diverse
Don’t hesitate
and challenging
to satisfynew
your
task.
science and technological research.
curiosity and to expand your horizons.

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director

With its international and innovative
atmosphere, Empa offers you an excellent
working environment.

Mission
Empa – Bridging Research and Application

 Application-inspired Materials Science and

 Technology Developmentment
 Interdisciplinary Know-how
 Efficient Technology Transfer
 For the Benefit of Industry

 For the Welfare of Society
 Committed to Excellence in all our Activities

Empa

Materials Science and Technology
History, Worth Knowing, Facts and Figures

History of Empa
1880 The «Institution for the Testing of Building Materials», the
forerunner to Empa, begins its work.

1891 Ludwig Tetmajer, the first director of Empa, is given the task of
investigating the collapse of a railway bridge near
Muenchenstein, built by the world-famous engineer Gustav
Eiffel. Tetmajer is quickly able to demonstrate the cause of the
collapse. As a consequence, the institute attracts international
acclaim.
Ludwig Tetmajer,
First Empa Director

1937 The Swiss Testing Institution in St.Gallen merges with Empa.
1962 Empa moves from Zurich to Dubendorf.
1988 A significant change of course occurs, with increased emphasis
placed on research. The Empa is renamed «Federal Material
Testing and Research Institute».

History of Empa
1994 The staff of the Armaments Services Group joins Empa and
establishes the Materials Technology Laboratory.
1996 The staff at Empa’s St.Gallen site move into their new building.
From 2001 Empa‘s priorities shift primarily towards research and
innovative development as well as providing specialized
services.
2010 Empa increasingly aligns its activities more closely with its core
mission:
To transfer research and technologies into marketable innovations

Empa within the ETH Domain
Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor

Board of the ETH Domain

Dr. Fritz Schiesser
ETH Board President

Eawag

Empa

EPFL

ETHZ

PSI

WSL

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona
Director Empa

Empa in numbers (2011)
3 Sites
5 Departments

Budget

Dübendorf, St. Gallen, Thun
36 Departments
920 Employees (840 FTE; approx. 30% women)
of these 27 Professors
146 PhD Students
41 Apprentices
plus: 160 Master’s Students and Interns
plus: 80 academic guests

97 Mio. CHF Public Funding
50 Mio. CHF Third-Party Funding

Output

>500 Peer-reviewed (SCI/E) Publications
100 Seminars and Conferences at Empa-Academy

Third-party projects

>30 running projects EU Framework Programmes
>90 running SNF projects
80 running KTI projects

Our Vision

Materials and Technologies for a
Sustainable Future

Empa’s Tasks

Angewandte Forschung
Applied Research
Technology Transfer

Services

 Industry Cooperation
 Continuing Education
 Reports / Expertise for
Government Authorities
& other Public Bodies
(Basis for Political
Decisions)

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Contract Research
Consulting
«Trouble Shooting»
Independent Expertise
and Studies

Education
 PhD Students, Postdocs
 Apprentices
Teaching Activities
 ETHZ / EPFL
 Universities
 Universities of Applied
Sciences (UAS)

Empa Research Focus Areas
Nanostructured
Materials

Materials for Energy
Technologies

Natural Resources and Pollutants

Nanotechnology / Instruments and
Tools
Analytical Methods and Measurement
Techniques
Sustainable Built
Sustainability, Reliability and Safety
Environment

Computational Modelling
Health and
Performance

Adaptive Systems

The Empa Intranet – an important source of information

Empa Intranet / Human Resources
On the HR-Homepage you will find valuable information and descriptions of procedures
concerning all important Personnel questions.

Trust-based working hours
At Empa work is carried out on the basis of
trust-based working hours.This means that
work performance rather than presence is
given priority and rewarded. This provides
employees with considerable freedom in the
organisation of their work. At the same time
they must take responsibility for their
personal work scheduling and time
management.

Working-hours regulations, instructions for recording absences,
holiday schedules and regulations, etc, can be found on our HRhomepage.

These absences must be recorded in the
electronic Time System (Bixi).
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Holidays, unpaid leave, credited and used-up overtime hours
Illness, Accidents
Parental Leave, Care of Family Members
External and Internal Further Education, Military / Y & S Leadership
courses
Activity in Unions and Staff Associations
Public Office
In the case of an accident, Human Resources must be contacted
immediately.
In cases of illness, one’s superiors must be immediately informed.
From the 4th day of illness a doctor’s certificate must be submitted to
Human Resources.
 Forms and Information can be found on the HR-Homepage.
 (Time recording (Bixi))

Accident Insurance
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SUVA – Insurance against Occupational and Non-occupational Accidents
(UVG)
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For occupational and non-occupational risk of accident, you are insured with
Suva. In the case of a hospital stay, the costs for the stay in a general ward are
covered.

AXA Winterthur – Supplement to Accident Insurance UVG (voluntary)


The costs of a hospital stay in a private ward can additionally be insured with
AXA. Empa offers its employees collective supplementary insurance for this
purpose.
In addition, insurance for lump-sum death and disability benefits can also be taken
out.
 Registration Form and Information can be found on our HR-Homepage.
 HR-Documents

Changes to personnel data
Changes to:
Address, civil status, bank account information, child(ren), and
residence permit data must be immediately reported to Human
Resources.
In doing so you can be certain that salary statements, payments, etc.
will be carried out correctly.

 The formula for such changes can be found on our HR-Homepage
 HR-Documents

Contact Points
For various matters the following contact points / persons are available
to assist you:
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HR-Partner
Staff Committee
Equal Opportunities Officer
Person responsible for sexual harassment and mobbing
Ombudsman’s Office
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Integrity in Research
 Conflict Management / Whistle Blowing
 For PhDs
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Social Counselling Toivanen
 Detailed information on these topics can be found on our HR-Homepage.

Informatics
Here you will find guidelines, request forms and
further information concerning IT security.
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Password guidelines
User rules concerning telematics (BOT)
Information sheet on the use of passwords
Application for VPN Empa
Application for a connection to the Empa data network
Brief information for new employees
Informatics quidelines from the FHB /RHB

 Detailed Information: Intranet / Informatics / Instructions

Intranet / FHB / RHB
In the Management Manual (FHB)
and in the Regulation Manual
(RHB) all general regulations,
directives and procedures are
described in detail.

Important telephone numbers

Type

Dübendorf

St. Gallen

Thun

8888

144

2985

Chemical
Accidents

118

782

2985

Fire Alarm

118

118

2985

Police (external)

0117

0117

0117

Emergency
Medical Services

Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Dübendorf / Thun

Department
10
20, 30, Lab 292

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Barbara Reinhart

Jolanda Müller

Karin Schöb

Judith Widemann

Andrea Koellmann

Béatrice Ziltener

50
60

Salary / Social Security

Brigitte Kappeler

Nina Schnetzler

Sarka Spiller
Nadja Nenzi

St. Gallen

Department
Alle

HR-Administration

HR-Partner

Esther Zürcher / Susanne Medgyesy

Salary / Social Security

Cornelia Stalder

Annex

On the following slides you have the opportunity to acquire more
detailed information on various issues.

Instructions

By clicking on the bars you will gain access to
the corresponding intranet sites.

By closing the browser
you can return to the
presentation.

The green Home-button
leads back to the
previous menu.

The arrows serve to
make slide changes

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The red Home-button ends
the presentation.

Part 1
Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)
Holidays

Part 2
Homepage (HR)
International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

Do you really want to
end the PowerPoint
Part 3
Procedures (HR)
presentation.
Right through Empa
Regulation and Managemnt Handbook
Social counselling Toivanen

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No

Part 4
Absence Management
Trust-based working hour regulations
Time Management (BIXI)
Emergency Medical Services
Guidelines
Passwords

Contact Points
Further education, mentoring
Documents (HR)

Holidays
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

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International Guests
Change personnel data
Staff development
Staff Committe

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PowerPoint
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Documents (HR)
Holidays

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Staff development
Staff Committe

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end the PowerPoint
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Passwords
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And now we wish you a good start and
every success with your activity at
Empa.

Human Resources