**Update to 4/26/21 article**
Check out the VCF/VCA joint CalMessage from 5/14/21.
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Next month, Fiscal Close (FY20-21) deadlines will be shared with faculty and staff via a joint Vice Chancellor Finance (VCF) / Vice Chancellor Administration (VCA) CalMessage.
Collaborative groups in Berkeley Regional Services (BRS), Business Process Management Office (BPMO) and Technology @ Berkeley have been working over the past year and a half on the new and improved HR ServiceNow system. There is definite excitement about an anticipated Fall ‘21 launch. Campus units and their employees who use ServiceNow to request and track HR services will experience a more modern system that is being called the HR SERVICE HUB.
As outlined in a 3/5/21 CalMessage to campus leadership from Marc Fisher and Eugene Whitlock, they are recommending divisions observe four administrative closure days (Mon., 3/22 - Thurs., 3/25) during the Berkeley Campus Spring Break (a short work week due to theCésar Chávez holiday on 3/26). The Vice Chancellor Administration division
(Editor's note: Below is the email from Moon Jang-Shinn, CAO, Summer Sessions, Study Abroad & Lifelong Learning (SSALL) and the BRS HR Management Team on 3/4/21 to announce the 2021 Summer Sessions Hiring Process has now begun.)
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Dear Department Managers and Colleagues,
(Editors note: the following is a 1/15/21 campus email sent to academic contacts by Heather Archer, Assistant Vice Provost, Academic Personnel and the Berkeley Regional Services Leadership Teams as a preview to the 2021 Summer Salary deadlines and important information.)
Dear Colleagues:
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a nice and restful holiday break.
In anticipation of the upcoming semester and efforts for Spring hiring, this week, Berkeley Regional Services (BRS) regions have begun communicating details, important deadlines, actions to take and other reminders to their campus clients. While updates are still being made to existing Smartsheet(s) to improve the processes, departments should begin collecting their hiring details now.
Berkeley’s CalTime Team has just added new labels to enable employees and managers to easily view the total year to date amount of COVID-19 related leave hours recorded in CalTime. CalTime users may locate these hours taken by viewing the accrual tab at the bottom of their employee timecard. This is the same section where employees currently view their vacation and sick leave accruals and balances.
Looking for an easy way to see a “snapshot” of the employees who report to you and see information like their job code, title, department (org node), pay chartstrings, etc.?
(Editors note: the following represents a CalMessage sent to campus on 8/3/30 from Jenn Stringer.)
Dear Campus Community,
(Updated on 7/16/20)
As a follow-up to this News article from May 29, 2020, our colleagues in Berkeley's People & Culture have added additional Zoom/Drop-in Sessions which are open office hour sessions available to anyone at Berkeley as a means as a means to come and ask questions on requesting the COVID-19 related leaves, troubleshooting, etc. No registration needed; just join the Zoom call(s).
(Editor's note: The following was a CalMessage to campus on 6/22/20 from the Vice Chancellor of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Rosemarie Rae.)
Colleagues,
(Editor's note: the following email was sent by the BEARS Region to their campus clients on 5/28/20. Similar messages are being sent by other BRS regions.)
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing today as a follow-up to the campus email from People & Culture on 5/28/20 which introduced the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) processes, forms, and leave codes now available in CalTime.
(Editors note: The following joint Vice Chancellor Finance and Vice Chancellor Administration CalMessage email was delivered to faculty and staff on 5/14/20.)
Campus Colleagues,
The fiscal close deadlines are now available on the Chief Financial Officer website.
(Editors note: the following information was shared with campus departments by their respective BRS Regions the week of 4/21/20)
Berkeley Regional Services (BRS) is announcing some exciting improvements that have been adopted in order for new Berkeley hires to be more productive when they begin working. These improvements are some of the components of BRS’ larger Re-Envision Onboarding initiative.
In the next evolution to improve the way HR help is requested and managed on campus, the Berkeley Regional Services (BRS) team, collaborating with partners in Information Services & Technology (IT&S) and the Business Process Management Office (BPMO) are working on introducing a new, more modern HR ServiceNow look and feel, calling it, HR ServiceNow 2.0.
Improvements you'll see ~
Navigating all the various hiring steps here at Berkeley for new employees can be tricky. In close collaboration with the Division of Student Affairs and the BRS BEARS Region, a new resource has been developed to help campus supervisors and managers who are planning to hire staff and students this year (and beyond).
Editors note: As announced to Divisional Finance Leaders in mid-December 2019, this new offering was officially communicated to the entire campus by Rosemarie Rae, Vice Chancellor of Finance and Chief Financial Officer in an email on 1/23/20.
Colleagues,
Berkeley Regional Services (BRS) has just learned that the UC Berkeley UCPath Operations Team has scheduled three (3) upcoming Fall Update sessions to help people better understand the UCPath structure and leadership.
Specifically, these sessions will cover:
(The following Graduate Division email was sent to Berkeley Regional Services Directors, Divisional Finance Leaders, Berkeley HR, and the Controller's Office on 11/27/19)
Dear BRS Regional Directors and Research Administration Staff, Controller, Human Resources and Divisional Finance Leaders,
This is an update regarding the process for charging fee remissions, one that will remain in effect through Spring 2020:
