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In this month's issue:
SPOTLIGHT
> New Employee Focus
> New HR Web Design
HUMAN RESOURCES
>
Benefits Announcement
> Leader Training
PAYROLL
>
W2's
>
Electronic W-2 Rewards
> Log into PASS
and
PeopleSoft
TRAINING
> Training Operations
Survey
> UH SACUBO Drive-In
Workshop
> Understanding UH
Business
Around
the Campus
> Faculty/Staff Meal
Plans
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MARCH 2007 - EMPLOYEE
FOCUS
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New Employee Focus
Newsletter
We’re changing to fit the way you work. In the coming months, you’ll see this newsletter evolve as we begin including more information about the way the university does business. We’ll be adding process changes from departments across campus and we look to all of you to help us identify topics of interest for our articles. For article suggestions and comments, please contact Amy Iverson, at
aiverson@uh.edu
New Human Resources
Web Page
We are listening and responding to your HR
web needs. There has been a lot of feedback
about the difficult navigation and design of
the Human Resources web page. We have
redesigned our site to make important HR
programs and resources more visible and to
allow user to move easier through the entire
site.
Visit Human Resources
on the web and let
us know what you think.
Benefits
Announcement
The University of Houston EAP
Savings Center and Liberty Mutual Insurance
Company have worked together to bring our
faculty and staff a special group discount
on auto and home insurance rates.
With Group Savings Plus you'll enjoy a
special group discount of up to 10%* off
Liberty Mutual’s already competitive auto
and home insurance rates. That could help
save you up to $327.96** or more a year! We
encourage you to call Liberty Mutual today
to see how much you can save on your auto,
home and other personal insurance.
Leader
Training
The Human Resource Department is now
offering Coaching, Discipline &
Documentation training to leaders across
campus. This course introduces methods for
facilitating coaching and disciplinary
sessions with employees and covers methods
for proper documentation. The goal is to
provide leaders with the skills necessary to
facilitate coaching and disciplinary
transactions that are in line with
University policy. The course is currently
being delivered to groups or teams of
leaders working within the same area or
department. Department Managers interested
in facilitating training in their area
should contact their assigned HR Generalist
for more information.
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W2's
Any employee who has not received their 2006
W2 for any reason can access it
electronically via PASS. PASS will not be
available 02/24/07 through 03/05/07 due to
the PeopleSoft HR upgrade. It will be
available after March 5th. Employees may
also request a copy from the Customer
Service Center at X33988.
Electronic W-2 Rewards
Online W-2 processing was available once again this year via the PASS system. One employee from each campus who chose to get their W2 electronically instead of having one mailed to their home was selected at random for a gift. Emily Marin, Assistant College Business Administrator for the Cullen College of Engineering, was selected from UH main campus, and won a $50 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble.
Instructions for logging into PASS and PeopleSoft 8.9
With the 8.9 version, HRMS is consolidating UserId’s. You will no longer use your ‘Z’ userid, or your HR UserId in PASS or PeopleSoft HR. Your new User id will be your Employee ID. All users will be required to select Forgotten Password to receive a temporary password via email before they can log in to the system. The temporary password will expire as soon as they access the system for the first time, and they will be required to change the password immediately. After they change their password, they need to close the browser and reopen a new session to log on. Please contact Customer Service for assistance with login problems at X33988.
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Training Operations Survey
Training Operations, the new Business
Services department, would like your
guidance as it develops new training
opportunities for faculty and staff. Many of
you have already provided your feedback on
the training we could be offering or ways
that we can improve our current business
process training. We’d like to formally
document the need for training and develop a
strategy for improvement. If you’d like to
help us with these efforts, please complete
our short survey at the below link. We’ll
publish the survey results in next month’s
newsletter and keep you posted on the
department’s game plan for developing new
training classes in future issues.
View survey here
UH
SACUBO Drive-In Workshop
UH SACUBO Drive-In Workshop If you’re
looking for an opportunity to boost your
department’s business continuity plan and
network with higher education administrators
from across the southern region, mark your
calendars for the March 21, 2007 UH SACUBO
Drive-In Workshop. This workshop will
feature presentations by Nora Miller, Vice
President for Finance and Administration at
Mississippi University for Women; Dave
Irvin, Associate Vice Chancellor/Associate
Vice President for Plant Operations at the
University of Houston; and Emily Messa,
Executive Director of Business Services at
the University of Houston. The workshop is 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 21, 2007 in the OB
Ballroom. Cost to attend is $95 if fees are
received before March 7th and $110 if
received after March 7th. Participants
needing CPE will receive 8 CPE Credits in
Management Advisory Services for workshop
attendance.
Workshop
registration includes all materials and
refreshments/meals. Please send in your
registration fee/form to Emily Messa, if
interested in attending. Checks/P-Cards will
be accepted. If paying by check, please use
vendor 0000007916, address 10. Please call
Emily Messa at 3-8184 should you have any
questions or need additional information.
Understanding UH Business
The second Understanding UH Business series
will wrap up Thursday, March 8, 2007 as
participants overview of the annual,
administrative reporting requirements and
why they are necessary, receive information
and discuss the certifying signature’s role
in the transaction approval process, and
complete team-building exercises on ethical
conduct and fraud in the university
environment.
We will begin preparations this summer for
our third installment of the course, which
will kick off in mid-October.
Anyone
interested in developing an understanding of
the university’s business processes is
invited to attend. To express interest and
be nominated to attend this class, employees
in the colleges should notify their college
administrator and administrative personnel
in the non-academic divisions should contact
their division administrator to be nominated
to attend this course. Questions about the
curriculum or program should be directed to
Sandra Medellin at 713-743-5753.
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FACULTY/STAFF MEAL PLANS AVAILABLE NOW!
MEAL PLANS – THE ULTIMATE DINING SOLUTION AT
UH
How many times have you had to search for
money for lunch, found out you don’t have
enough cash and wondered, how can I get a
meal when I want one on campus?
The solution to this problem is a
faculty/staff meal plan, and it is available
via payroll deduction! UH Dining Services
offers a variety of meal plans to fit your
on-campus lifestyle. We offer meal plans
that provide purchasing power at the UC or
UC Satellite, all C3 Convenience Stores,
Einstein Bros. Bagels at PGH, and all
on-campus UH Dining Services venues with
Cougar Cash. Also available are block plans
in our Real Food on Campus (RFoC) facilities
at OB Hall and Moody Towers that are
all-you-care-to-eat facilities (so bring
your appetite). For more information contact
the Administration & Finance Customer
Service Center in Room 325 McElhinney Hall
or call them at 713.743.3988.
Also, watch for the new JAM loyalty program.
The JAM loyalty program is a free
membership, Internet-based rewards program
offered to students, faculty, and staff. JAM
participants can earn redeemable points
toward various prizes with every purchase at
on-campus dining facilities. Members can
redeem rewards such as brand name sporting
goods, electronics, fashion accessories, and
gift cards at locations such as Best Buy and
Barnes and Noble(redeemable at the UH
Bookstore). In addition, members are
encouraged to consider donating their JAM
points to benefit America’s Second Harvest –
The Nation’s Food Bank Network. Ask about
signing up or visit the website at
www.uh.edu/dining.
UH Dining Services offers a wide variety of
dining locations and venues. For a full
schedule of Spring semester hours and
locations please visit the website at
www.uh.edu/dining.
The following are SPRING BREAK hours of operations for select locations.
C3 Convenience Store
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Other
Retail Operations |
University Center Retail Hours |
University Center
M - TH 7:30AM -
3:00PM |
Einstein Bros.
M-TH 7:30 - 2:00pm |
Wendy's
M-Wed 10:00am - 5:00pm
TH
10:00am - 3:00pm |
OB Hall
M - TH
10:00AM - 3:00PM
F - Sun
10:00AM - 10:00PM |
Smoothie King
M-TH 9:00am - 5:00pm |
Chili's Too
M-TH 11:00am - 2:00pm |
Moody Towers
M - F 10:00AM -
3:00PM
Sat
10:00AM - 9:00PM
Sun
10:00AM - 10:00PM |
OB -Java City
Sun 5:00pm - 8:00pm |
Java City
M-TH 7:30am - 2:00pm |
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Subway - Bates Law Bldg.
M-TH 9:00am - 3:00pm |
All-You-Care-To-Eat Faculty
RFoC - Moody Towers
M-Sat 12:00am - 8:00pm
Sun
12:00am - 10:00pm
RFoC - OB
Sun
5:00pm - 8:00pm |
Cougar Hour at Chili's Too
(Resumes on Monday, March 19, 2007)
Monday - Thursday 3:00pm - 7:00pm
Domestic Draft $3.00
Specialty Draft $3.50
Friday 3:00pm - 7:00pm
Classic Margarita $3.50
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