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Onboarding Guide for HiWis/Students

  • First day need to be done
    • Let Pallavi give you a transponder (your key to enter the building and rooms)
    • Get your IT equipment from secretary( Pallavi Jain).
    • Complete all the paperwork related to your employment at the TU
    • Get your user account and set up web services inlcude
      • mattermost
      • gitlab
      • nextcloud
      • bookstack
      • cluster if you need
  • Mark Calendar for group meeting and Reading Group
  • If you want to use a LAN port for your internet, ask Pallavi for a LAN cable and pass the folloing informations to Boris.S., you will get a static IP address and connection setting infos.
    • the room
    • socket numbers of the socket you want to use.
    • MAC address(i.e. the address ofthe device that will connect the etherenet cable, e.g. Monitor, usb-hub, networkcard directly)
  • Subscribe to the necessary mailing lists:
    • the entire lab https://lists.tu-darmstadt.de/mailman/listinfo/mai
    • the 42 cluster https://lists.tu-darmstadt.de/mailman/listinfo/42cluster
Some Notes:
  • Working Permit, for international student it's important to submit working permit and update regularly, it could be.
    • "Zusatzblatt zur Aufenhaltstitel" that will is issued while receiving residence card
    • "Fixtionsbescheinigung"
  • Hiwi Working Time Limit:
    • For internaltional students, Hiwi works doesn't count for working time limitation.
    • Hiwi student are obliged to record the working time and fill in the table, For a working time of more than six hours, a rest break of at least 30 minutes is required, and for a working time of more than nine hours, a rest break of at least 45 minutes must be observed (§ 4 Arbeitszeitgesetz).
  • Entgeltbescheinigungen/Salary Slip, you have not ask office:

    Ina Winneknecht
    Universität Kassel – Hochschulbezügestelle.
    Sachgebiet Hessische Hochschulen Hilfskräfte
    Mönchebergstraße 19.
    34125 Kassel.
    Phone: +49 561 804 7826.
    Email: payroll-3-shk@uni-kassel.de -Tax:

    • Minijob doesn't pay addtional tax, but defaultly "pension insurance(Rentenversicherung)" will be charged(3.6% of the salary, date by 07.Nov.2024).
    • If your salary exceeds Minijob's payment, be aware of personal income tax(Einkommensteuer), by 07.11.2024, the minimum line is 11,604 euro per year. If the salary exceeds this line, you have to pay the tax.
  • Vacation
    • If you are in vacation, notify your supervisor and cc. Pallavi if needed.
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