- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Dear Colleagues,
I want you to know how much I appreciate the time that you took to participate in the Work Environment Assessment in 2012. ANR had a phenomenal 64% response rate! I hosted a virtual town hall with you in April of this year after the results were finally released. Today, I want to provide an update on the steps we are taking to follow up on the Work Environment Assessment. Workshops are being planned for the spring of 2015, and a “Save the Date” message will be coming soon with the date and location of the workshop in each regional grouping.
Goals of the workshop are to:
- share information on what we're learning from the assessment results with data by regional grouping as...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Open enrollment is still about three weeks away, but UC Office of the President has already posted information — including medical plan premiums — to help you start considering your options for 2014.
It is a year of major change. UC is dropping four medical plans and adding two. Anthem Blue Cross PPO and PLUS, Anthem Lumenos with HRA and Health Net Full HMO are being discontinued. Kaiser Permanente, Health Net Blue and Gold, Western Health Advantage and Core (administered by Blue Shield) will still be available.
UC is offering...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
On Jan. 20, 2013, all nonexempt staff employees who are currently paid monthly will transition to a biweekly pay cycle paid hourly.
This change is one of the ways the university is preparing for the implementation of UCPath, a new integrated payroll and human resource information system that will be shared across all UC locations.
The transition process is as follows:
- Employees whose paychecks are processed by UC Davis will begin using a biweekly pay cycle on Jan. 20, 2013.
- Nonexempt employees will be moved to the biweekly pay cycle.
- Employees on the biweekly pay cycle will be paid every other week on Wednesday.
- A transition assistance program is being developed to assist...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Dear ANR Colleagues:
You will be receiving or have already received an email about the Patent Amendment project. It is very important that you respond to this email. The outside vendor working with the Office of the President on the Patent Amendment project started sending emails on Nov. 28 to employees. We are starting to get questions about the Patent Amendment process so we wanted to share the answers to frequently asked questions.
If you haven’t seen it, the email may have gone to your spam folder. Please remember to check your spam or junk mail each day for this email. The email address from the vendor is UC_Patent_Amendment@vres.us.
You need to know your 9-digit employee ID number to complete the...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Dear Colleagues,
The University of California is seeking comments on its proposed Phased Retirement Program that would help employees who are 55 or older transition into retirement. Senior Management Group members and academics would not be eligible for this program. The program would be subject to collective bargaining for represented employees.
UC wants to offer this program as an optional tool that locations and organizational units may choose to provide to eligible career staff employees as an opportunity to transition into early retirement. The program would allow staff members to reduce their work hours by at least 10 percent a year over a fixed period, from 120 days up to three years, before retiring. In exchange,...