Special Updates

Faculty and Staff Benefits Annual Enrollment Announcement

The University of Missouri Faculty and Staff Benefits Annual Enrollment Change Period will begin Monday, October 26, 2009 and end Friday, November 6, 2009.  Annual Enrollment Information is currently being distributed and will continue to arrive through October 20. Please review the materials carefully upon arrival. The deadline for benefit changes is Friday, November 6, 2009.

Materials enclosed in your packet will include:

• Combined 2009 Personal Benefits Statement and 2010 Benefit Enrollment Form and Flexible Spending Account Form
• Annual Enrollment CD containing your 2010 Benefit Plan Change Booklet, 2010 Summary of Benefits for Full-Time Faculty and Staff, and all 2010 Benefit Program Booklets.  In addition to these new materials, the CD also contains frequently used forms and contact information for Benefit Plan administrators.

For the 2010 Annual Enrollment period, you will be able to initiate enrollment changes online through MyHR (activated Oct 26). We encourage you to use this timely and efficient enrollment approach during the period of October 26, 2009 through November 6, 2009.  You may use either Self Services or your combined 2009 Personal Benefits Statement/2010 Annual Enrollment Form to submit Annual Enrollment Changes. Regardless of how you submit your changes, you must submit them by Friday, November 6, 2009.  Please do not make changes using both methods.

If no changes to your current benefit program enrollment are needed, no action is required on your part.  Coverage will continue into 2010.

If you would like to participate in the Health Care and/or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, you must complete and return your 2010 Flexible Spending Accounts form or enroll through Self Service.  You will not receive an enrollment form from ASI. Flexible Spending Account elections do not carry over from year to year, and require a new election each calendar year.
UM Annual Enrollment Announcement
10/12/09   

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Important Policy Changes

Recently, all employees received an announcement that HR 211 Overtime has been changed so that time off with pay will no longer count as time worked for the purpose of computing overtime or compensatory time for non-exempt hourly employees.  This change is effective starting with the August 23, 2009 pay period, and hourly employees will see it on their September 16, 2009 pay advices. 

In order for their pay to be processed correctly, hourly employees must use a new Bi-weekly Payroll Time Record to record their time worked.  Click here to access your new Time Record. Employees should note that REG hours on the Time Record may total more than 80 hours in pay periods when they have time off with pay because vacation, sick days, and personal days will be paid at REG time and not count towards overtime hours. Hourly employees who are required to work on a holiday will still be paid 1½ times their straight-time wage rate in addition to their normal pay for hours worked on the holiday.

In addition, HR 401 Holidays has been revised to eliminate the requirement that eligible employees must be in pay status the day before and the day after the holiday to be paid for that holiday.
H.R. Record
July/August 2009   

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Employee Retirement Contributions

To accommodate the requirements for employee contributions to the UM Retirement Plan of 1-2%, a row has been add to Job Data effective 05/31/09 for biweekly paid employees and 06/01/09 for monthly paid employees.

Be sure to pull up the correct turnaround if you have actions prior to the 5/31/09 and 6/1/09 effective dated rows.  Do this by entering the correct effective date in PS PAF on the first screen where you enter the EmpIID and recd number.  If you have questions or need assistance, contact Andrea Dunbar, ext. 5376 (for Academic PAFs) and Talia Gholson, ext. 5237 (for Staff PAFs). 

Errol Benson
Assistant Director of HR, Administration
6/3/09

 

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myHR

The University has developed an application to assist employees in viewing and maintaining personal, benefit and payroll information.  Human Resources is pleased to announce the rollout of the Employee Self Service application, myHR.  We appreciate the dedication of the functional and technical teams who devoted many months of planning and testing to this project. 

The myHR application provides secure and easy access to review your human resources, payroll, and benefit information online; many items can be updated online.  We encourage you to use it to keep your data current and accurate.

The website provides additional details on the self service application.  We invite you to explore this website.  To begin viewing your personal information, click here. Login using your User ID and Password.  Follow the menu item, Self Service.

Due to the sensitivity of the information available in myHR, it is important to keep your UMSL SSO Password safe. You should never share this information because doing so enables others to view your HR, Financial and Student information. We recommend that you change your password regularly. You can reset your password by going to https://sso.umsl.edu and following the instructions.

Please contact Errol Benson at ext. 5803 if you have questions or comments. Thank you for your time and interest.

Peter Heithaus
Director Human Resources
8/21/08

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