UCPath 7/10-7/17

UCPath Changes & Enhancements: July 10, 2020 – July 17, 2020

UCPath recently implemented the changes listed below. Refer to the UCPath Changes & Enhancements link on the support site for additional detail.

Benefits

Summary

Date

Location Impacted

Change Request Number

Updated the New Hire Open Enrollment Event statement employees receive upon submitting a New Hire event to ensure employees receive clear information regarding their benefit elections for the Behavioral Health and Supplemental Health Plans.

07/13/20

All

UCP-85731
Updated the Benefit Billing Election form to provide an option to decrease coverage while on Leave Without Pay. Previously, the Benefits Billing Election Form did not provide an option to decrease coverage; it only allowed the employee to cancel a plan completely. 07/16/20 All UCP-74970
Removed the tax segment from the I-146 interface because Redwood does not use the tax segments. This change should reduce the file size and improve performance. 07/13/20 All UCP-74777
Removed unnecessary employees from the I-146 to improve the accuracy of the data and reduce the manual analysis required.  Only employees eligible for UCRP, employees who recently retired or employees with a DCHOIC or safe harbor deduction should be included. 07/13/20 All UCP-72110

General Ledger

Summary

Date

Location Impacted

Change Request Number

Corrected E-714- Rounding discrepancies in the labor ledger.

07/13/20

ASUCLA, UCB, UCLA, UCLA Med, UCM, UCR, UCSB, UCOP

UCP-74666
Changed the default department FAU for UC Irvine to University. 07/13/20 UCI UCP-91683
Updated the effective date of cost center (class chartfield) 'DISC' to 12/07/2019. 07/13/20 UCI UCP-92108
Updated the GAEL, VLA, and CBR assessment for UC Merced for Fiscal Year 2021. 07/14/20 UCM UCP-92202
Stopped the I-619 GLACIER interface for UCOP because Non-resident alien processing will be a manual process with the new common chart of accounts implementation. 07/14/20 UCOP UCP-89246
To accommodate the UCOP General Ledger reporting and subsystem requirements,  modified the OPERATING_UNIT field to M. 07/14/20 UCOP UCP-87694
Performance improvement to optimize the process scheduler by removing hard coding to PSUNX which will allow the process scheduler master to do the load balancing. 07/15/20 UCOP UCP-71799
Updated interfaces (i.e. I-303) to route UCOP and UCM data to the correct location based on the Financial Systems Retrofit project. 07/14/20 UCOP UCP-86252
Implemented performance improvements for UC-E718 PS Batch Budgetary Costing. 07/10/20 UCOP UCP-72222
Updated the CBR Group Characteristics Mapping for UCSD. 07/14/20 UCSD UCP-92511

Payroll & Compensation Changes

Summary

Date

Location Impacted

Change Request Number
Updated UCPath with the CalPERS 1959 Survivor Rate for the 2020-2021 fiscal year.

07/13/20

All

UCP-92498

Updated UCPath to allow policy-covered staff employees to continue to accrue vacation leave above their maximum through 12/31/2020.

 07/10/20 All UCP-92530
Updated the salary grade and step rates in UCPath in accordance with the 2020-21 academic salary range adjustment for the LX and RA bargaining units. The salary scales are effective as of the pay period beginning July 1, 2020 for monthly paid employees and July 12, 2020 for bi-weekly paid employees. 07/13/20 All UCP-91817
Added salary plans APL0 through APL9 to the eligibility criteria used for deriving the Health Sciences (HS) Paygroup.  This should resolve the issue causing employees to be incorrectly excluded from the HS paygroup. 07/10/20 All UCP-91746
Updated the FICA attribute for EARN code SMP to “Not Subject” to ensure Supplemental Military pay is not subject to FICA taxes. 07/13/20 All UCP-92867
Updated the Deduction Code BENADJ (Benefit Adjustment) to be configured as a system wide deduction code. 07/14/20 All UCP-93272
Updated the maximum dues rate of $155.92 for the California Nurses Association (CNA).  The new rate is effective as of the pay period beginning July 1, 2020 for monthly paid employees and July 12, 2020 for bi-weekly paid employees. 07/16/20 All UCP-92967
Provided the covered Clerical & Allied Services (CX) bargaining unit employees with a 3% across the board wage range adjustment increase effective July 2020.  The CX rate tables were updated as well. 07/15/20 All UCP-91487
Added a new Business Academic Schedule Page for UCD; UCSD; LBNL for 2020. 07/13/20 UCD, UCSD, LBNL UCP-92958
Implemented the range adjustment effective 7/1/2020 for local salary plan (SDM6). 07/15/20 UCSD, UCSD Med UCP-92163
Updated the salary grade table by inactivating UCOP grandfathered job titles that no longer have incumbents.   07/12/20 UCOP UCP-93185

Reports

Summary Date Location Impacted Change Request Number
Modified the PeopleSoft reports to accommodate new chartfield mapping. 07/14/20 UCM, UCOP UCP-84099

UCPath Online

Summary

Date

Location Impacted

Change Request Number
Modified the timing of the feedback survey email sent after a case is closed.  The email will now be 2 days after the case is closed (instead of immediately) to allow time for the case submitter to ask questions or reopen the case.

07/12/20

All

UCP-86398

 Updated the Earn Codes and Deduction Codes lists in QuickLinks.

07/15/20

All

UCP-93265

 Other Updates & Reminders:

  • The UCPath Production Process Schedule version 07.16.20 is available.  Changes were made to separate the expected timing of the GL Post Confirm Summary vs. Detail Labor Ledger data
  • The UCPath Schedule of I-156 Student FICA version 07.13.2020 is available
  • The following training materials have been updated:
    • Payroll (PAYL200: Additional Compensation and Payroll Requests):
      • Job Aid: Interlocation One-Time Additional Pay
        • Updated with new steps for processing an interlocation payment
        • This job aid is also located under the following course:
          • WFAL250: Template Transactions – Part I
      • Simulation: Submit One-Time Payment Request
        • Updated to include interlocation one-time payment information.
    • Workforce Administration (WFAL270: PayPath Transactions):
      • Simulation: Initiate Job Earnings Distribution PayPath Transaction (Staff)
        • Updated to include steps for processing the percentage salary reduction for UC Chancellors