Transferring employees
Last updated on May 26, 2025Employee transfers include any change of positions between ministries or within the same ministry. The information on this page will help you navigate this transition, wrapping up your work in your current position so you can start the next step in your career.
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Technology and resources
When transferring to a new position, you will maintain access to the tools, technology and information you need to succeed, including your:
- IDIR
- Outlook mailbox
- OneDrive
- H drive
- Workstation
- Assistive technology hardware and software
Before you transfer
Make sure to leave time to complete a few important tasks in the final days before transferring:
- Review your organization's information management policies, including government-wide and ministry-specific requirements
- Follow the records management best practices for handling, storing, transferring and disposing of records
- Participate in the knowledge transfer process to ensure your valuable knowledge is retained within the organization after you leave
- Return items specific to your current role and ministry property. You will keep your workstation to use in your new role
- Maintain contact with your new supervisor, reaching out with any questions
After you transfer
As you will continue to be an employee of the BC Public Service following your transfer, most of your information will remain on file.
A few tasks will complete the transfer process:
- Update your personal information, if required
- Enrol in benefits, if you will be moving from a bargaining unit position to an excluded position or vice versa
- Meet your new team
- Complete the onboarding process with the guidance of your new supervisor
- Start a new probationary period in your role
Your payroll information will remain the same by default and you won't be required to set it up again unless you have new banking information to provide. You won't have to re-take the Oath of Employment or the mandatory training required of new employees.
Benefits and vacation
If you will be transferring to a position included in a bargaining unit (union) such as BCGEU or PEA from an excluded position, you will have new health and life insurance benefits to explore. Upon starting in your new position, you will be required to enrol for benefits for the first time.
If you will be transferring to an excluded position from a position included in a bargaining unit, you will need to choose your flexible benefits options and complete forms for excluded employees.
Your membership to or exclusion from a bargaining unit, employment status and years of service in the BC Public Service all impact the number of vacation days you will earn in a year. Use the table on annual vacation entitlement for B.C. Government employees to find out how many vacation days you will earn in your new role.
Resources
Contact information
Onboarding.Support@gov.bc.ca