The University will be in recess from noon on Friday, December 23 until Tuesday, January 3, 2017. Please review the following for special processing deadlines, cutoff dates, and system and support availability, leading up to and throughout the winter recess.

Financial and Sponsored systems/applications will be available during winter recess; however, transactions will not be posted to the General Ledger, or refreshed into the OBI, CREW, and DWCENPRD ad hoc reporting environments, and the HUIT Support Center (617-496-2001) and FAD staff will be unavailable. For a PDF version of...

Extra hours for a holiday worked are not paid automatically. If an employee works on a holiday, they should report HWK to be paid at a rate of 1.5 times their normal pay for the holiday hours worked. The employee is also entitled to their regular pay for the holiday (FHP), or they may bank the time (FHE) and take time off at a later date (up to 1/5 of the employee weekly scheduled hours).

Grants Management Dashboards

The CREW Grants Management reports were decommissioned on Friday, Dec 1 and are no longer available, with the exception of the Sponsored Invalid Code Combinations and GMAS User Security reports.  As of Friday, December 2, all scheduled Grants Management reports have also been terminated and removed from CREW.  The OBI Grants Management reports are available and will be the source for grants management reporting going forward. 

If you have not yet attended an OBI Grants Management dashboard training, there are more...

At the end of January, three new fields will be added to the Vendor Request Form within the "Individual – Non US Citizen" and "Business Expense Reimbursement – Foreign Individual" vendor types:

• HUID (if applicable)
• Foreign Tax ID Number
• Date of Birth

Completing these fields is strongly encouraged for the improved integrity of our vendor file. Note that a Foreign Tax ID is required for tax treaty eligibility (if applicable) for certain types of income, and does have tax reporting implications.

For an updated Foreign Individual Vendor...