Over the weekend of October 5-6th approximately 15,000 employees were moved into positions in PeopleSoft, Aurora and Wasabi. This includes all staff, including union positions, and some schools have elected to include other classes (ex. Faculty, Post Docs, Temps etc.) at this time. A complete listing of required employee classes by school / unit may be found on our...

There is a new job code available in Empl Class T for Temporary employees who are working a non-exempt, variable hour workweek.  This job code was created for a new category of Temporary employees named Occasional High Hour Contingent Workers (OHHCW). The code may be used for Temporary employees that work sporadically during the fiscal year (July 1 – June 30) that meets the following criteria:  

• They may work up to 455 hours per fiscal year
• They may work up to 12 weeks per fiscal year
• They may have hours worked in no more...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that they will release a new Form W-4 for calendar year 2020. Starting 1/1/20, all new employees and any current employee who wishes to change their withholdings will be required to use the new form, which we expect will be incorporated into the electronic W-4 in PeopleSoft. 

Existing employees who do not wish to change their withholdings do not have to take any action. The IRS has released a draft of the form: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-dft/fw4--...

GMAS

The next GMAS release is scheduled for November 18, 2019, featuring direct integration with the ESTR system (IRB protocols).

• IRB approvals will no longer be directly edited in GMAS.
• In ESTR, IRB studies can be linked to GMAS projects.
• In GMAS, the IRB approval will show the latest status and high level details from ESTR, including a link directly to the study in ESTR.

Full release...