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UC contractors and vendors must comply with fair wage plan

As described in Human Resources' Oct. 14, ANR Update email, the UC Fair Wage/Fair Work Plan became effective Oct. 1, 2015. It is important to note that the plan applies not only to UC personnel, but also to contractors/vendors doing business with and providing services to UC. The UC Fair Wage/Fair Work Plan also provides measures to ensure contractor compliance including a dedicated telephone hotline (1-855-WAGES-UC) and webpage by which contract workers may report complaints directly to the Office of the President.

As the first university in the country to voluntarily set a minimum wage, compliance with this requirement will be scrutinized carefully. To ensure compliance, effective immediately it is imperative that UC ANR personnel do not allow contractors and/or vendors to perform work or provide services to UC ANR unless and until a properly authorized UC agreement is in place. (Common types of UC ANR work or services that are subject to the Fair Wage policy include repair services, farm labor contractor services, agricultural services, construction services, etc.)

UC policy has always required that an authorized UC purchase order (or other appropriate form of contract) be executed before work begins. With the implementation of the UC Fair Wage/Fair Work Plan, however, it is critical that UC ANR obtain services only from firms that will execute a contract guaranteeing payment of the plan's minimum wage, as described in UC's factsheet. Accordingly, the vendor's willingness to do this must be confirmed prior to the start of work.

Allowing work to proceed before an appropriately authorized UC purchase order is issued will be considered a breach of UC policy (an unauthorized purchase), and is very likely to trigger new/additional administrative requirements, cause delay and impede payment to the vendor.

The following UC ANR administrative staff members are available to assist you with this and related matters:

UC ANR Location	Contact Name	Phone Number and Email Address
County-based Cooperative Extension Offices	Emily Melton Casado, BOC-K Emily LaRue, BOC-K	559-646-6537   emcasado@ucanr.edu 559-646-6079    elarue@ucanr.edu
Research and Extension Centers	Debra Driskill, REC AO	760-356-3061     dldriskill@ucanr.edu
Statewide Programs & ANR Administrative Service Units	Sally Harmsworth, BOC-D Zach Watkins, BOC-D	530-750-1372    sharmsworth@ucanr.edu 530-750-1295     zmwatkins@ucanr.edu
UC ANR Oakland	Sonia Scott, AVP-BO	510-987-0084      sonia.scott@ucop.edu

Additional information is available at

• UC president announces $15/Hour Minimum Wage
• UC Fair Wage/Fair Work Plan Implementation Guide
• UC Business and Finance Bulletin BUS-43, Materiel Management

Thank you very much for your attention to and compliance with this new University of California policy. 

Catherine Montano
Director, Administrative Policies & Business Contracts

 

View or leave comments for ANR Leadership at http://ucanr.edu/sites/ANRUpdate/Comments.

This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.

 

Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Workshop April 10

The ANR Office of Contracts & Grants and the UC Davis Innovation Access Office will present an Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer workshop on Thursday, April 10, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.

ANR Contracts & Grants and UC Davis Innovation Access work together to support the continuum of innovation at ANR – from developing a new research project with a sponsor to protecting new inventions and transferring technologies to industry partners for commercializing in the marketplace.

This workshop will explain your rights, as a UC employee, under UC Patent Policy, and will detail the technology transfer process for new inventions. It will also explain why Intellectual Property language in research agreements is important and how it can have implications lasting after the research project is concluded.

Presenters include: 

• Kathleen P. Nolan, J.D. Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants
• Randi Jenkins, J.D., Associate Director, UCD Sponsored Programs Office (and former UCD Innovation Access Licensing Officer)
• Nancy Rashid, Ph.D., Licensing officer, UCD Innovation Access Office.

There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the workshop.

UC Cooperative Extension county directors, advisors, specialists and other interested ANR faculty and staff should attend. Specialists based at UC Berkeley or UC Riverside are encouraged to participate and will find this workshop very helpful even though they use the Technology Transfer Offices on their respective campuses for invention reporting. 

The workshop will be held in the San Joaquin Valley Conference Room of the ANR Building at 2801 Second Street in Davis.                             

For those unable to attend in person, or if space is no longer available, the workshop will be available via AdobeConnect. To participate in person or by AdobeConnect webinar, register at http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=12724. Webinar participants will receive the AdobeConnect link after they register.

 

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This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.

New phone numbers for staff in ANR building in Davis

Everyone who moved into the new ANR building located at 2801 Second Street in Davis has a new phone number. Before calling them, please check the ANR directory for their new phone numbers. Email addresses remain unchanged.

The following units have relocated to the new building:

• 4-H Foundation
• 4-H Youth Development Program
• Academic Personnel Unit
• Business Operations Center
• Communication Services and Information Technology
• Contracts and Grants
• Development Services
• Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
• Facilities Planning and Management
• Risk & Safety Services
• Integrated Pest Management Program
• Master Gardener Program
• Program Planning and Evaluation Unit
• Program Support Unit
• Research and Extension Center Administrative Office
• Staff Personnel Unit
• Western IPM Center
• Youth, Families and Communities Administrative Office

If you haven’t been in the new building, Steve Heindl gives a virtual tour of the transition from roller skating rink to LEED-certified offices at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ht47V3GZEY&feature=youtu.be.

 

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Reminder: Administrative functions survey

The deadline for providing input on how ANR’s reorganized administrative functions and units are working for you has been extended to Friday, Nov. 18.

The short survey, created by ANR’s Administrative Review Council (ARC), focuses on the functions of three service units:

• Staff Personnel Unit
• Business Operations Center
• Contracts and Grants Unit

Please complete as many of the questions/sections as possible based on the services that you use from these administrative service units. You may skip questions or an entire section if it does not apply, or you may select “NA” from the drop-down menu.

The survey, at https://ucce.ucdavis.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=6939, takes  5 to 15 minutes to complete. Your feedback is valuable so please include as much candid and constructive information as possible.

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This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.

ARC seeks your input

Over the past year, ANR administrative functions have been redesigned and reorganized with the key objective to better serve our programs and operations. A key strategy in this effort has been to consolidate administrative functions and units to create efficiencies and streamline where possible to save administrative costs. These reorganizations have significantly standardized processes, enhanced internal controls and provided savings—savings that have allowed ANR to reinvest in academic programming and positions that align with ANR’s Strategic Vision.

Now we would like to know how the reorganized administrative functions and units are working for you. ANR’s Administrative Review Council (ARC) has created a short survey focused on the functions of three service units:

• Staff Personnel Unit
• Business Operations Center
• Contracts and Grants Unit

Please complete as many of the questions/sections as possible based on the services that you use from these administrative service units. You may skip questions or an entire section if it does not apply, or you may select “NA” from the drop-down menu.

This survey will take you 5 to 15 minutes to complete. Your feedback is valuable so please include as much candid and constructive information as possible.

Please complete the survey at https://ucce.ucdavis.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=6939 by Thursday, November 10, 2011.

View or leave comments for the Executive Working Group

This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.

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