UCPath Changes & Enhancements: April 23, 2021 - April 30, 2021

UCPath recently implemented the changes listed below.

Benefits

Summary	Date	Change Request Number
Added new verbiage to UCPath to clarify that changes to benefits elections made due to a life event are effective retroactive to the date the life event occurred.	04/28/21	UCP-101617
Updated benefits terms & conditions in UCPath for 2021 on all benefit enrollment forms, benefit self-service enrollment events and submission and confirmation statements. Also renamed the “HIPAA Statement Confirmation” to “Terms & Conditions”.	04/30/21	UCP-99621

Cognos

Summary	Date	Change Request Number
Updated the TAM system wide summary report (R-210 ) Modified the “Details of all Job Openings posted during the period” sub-report to include the field “Job Open Target No of Openings”. Modified the “Details of all Positions filled during the period” sub-report to include the fields “Job Open Target No of Openings” and “Rcmnt Status Dt”.	04/28/21	UCP-102340

DDODS

Summary	Date	Change Request Number
Reconfigured the DDODS jobs to run in sequence instead of in parallel to improve performance.	04/26/21	UCP-103328
Implemented DDODS performance improvements.	04/26/21	UCP-103324

General Ledger

Summary	Date	Change Request Number
Added an edit to the "Direct Retro Salary Cap/MCOP funding worksheet" to disallow the user from transacting on more than 1 MCOP employee paycheck.	04/28/21	UCP-102493
Resolved the defect causing an incorrect VLA for employees with same earning expense type or same ERNCD with multiple FAU funding sources and employees with leave taken earning codes.	04/29/21	UCP-99005
Fixed the assessments for salary cost transfer (SCT) reversals to credit the same amount as the regular on-cycle check or the latest SCT performed on the check.	04/29/21	UCP-98318
Implemented a fix to resolve effort % errors on salary cost transfer transactions.	04/30/21	UCP-95628

Payroll & Compensation

Summary	Date	Change Request Number
Masked the personal contact information disclosure questions in UCPath employee self-service for all skilled craft local bargaining units: K3 (UCD), K4 (UCLA), K6 (UCSD), K8 (UCSB), K9 (UCI) and KM (UCM) per request of Teamsters Local 2010 ensuring compliance with AB119.	04/26/21	UCP-103162
Increased the DC Safe Harbor 401a Limits for 2021 from $137,700.00 to $142,800.00.	04/28/21	UCP-102699
Resolved the issue causing CWR renewals processed via smart HR templates to create new EMPL records.	04/28/21	UCP-102457
Updated academic job codes and salary plans: Deactivated the minimum salary grades for salary plan APU5 and T002 at all location set IDs Removed range salary rates from salary plans T031 and T31N at all location set IDs Deactivated all academic salary plans from set ID ASLA1 Updated the Empl Class to "Academic: Contingent Worker" for job codes: CWR007 - Clin Assoc/Admitting Physician CWR003 - Visiting Student Res-Graduate CWR015 - Visiting Scholar CWR016 - Visiting Student Res-UnderGrad CWR021 - Research Fellow CWR022 - Research Associate Deactivated 3 academic job codes: 001130 - PROF-10 MONTHS 001230 - ASSOC PROF-10 MONTHS 001330 - ASST PROF-10-MONTHS	04/28/21	UCP-103202
Updated the I-357 interface to send the lived/preferred name to LMS.	04/29/21	UCP-96680
Updated the system to appropriately send updates to Tracker Added additional “Hire” and "Rehire" action/reason codes that should trigger the I-9 process. Removed action reason codes that should not trigger the I-9 process. Modified the contingent worker exclusion to allow for hiring existing CWRs as employees.	04/30/21	UCP-93130
Resolved the defect with smart HR templates causing "Oath" and "Patent Dates" to populate with a date when they should be removed and blank.	04/30/21	UCP-99008
Updated the system to exclude job codes with the classified indicator of “Not Applicable/CWR” from the salary plan/grade validation.	04/30/21	UCP-99608
Updated the system to require inbound GL files (I-101, I-159, I-703, I-170) to adhere to new inbound file name standards enabling automation. Effective 5/3, files that do not conform to the standards will be rejected and must be resubmitted.	04/30/21	UCP-99756
Updated the verbiage of the UCPath notification email after a State CA DE-4 form is submitted.	04/30/21	UCP-91490
Resolved the defect causing the "People code" error message when the CA State DE-4 form is submitted.	04/30/21	UCP-102644

TAM

Summary	Date	Change Request Number
Resolved the issue causing errors when the "Applicant ID" = 0.	04/30/21	UCP-96395
Resolved the defect causing "School Code Descriptions" with an apostrophe to error out preventing users from submitting applicants to background check.	04/30/21	UCP-102279
Resolved the defect requiring users to navigate to "Earnings and Distributions" in order to properly push salary data to the pre-hire audit report.	04/30/21	UCP-100884

UCPath

Summary	Date	Change Request Number
Updated earn and deduction code lists on UCPath.	04/23/21	UCP-103309
Updated the QuickLinks earn code list to include payout codes.	04/27/21	UCP-103522

Other Updates & Reminders:

Training: Navigate to UCPath > Help > Location Users to access recently updated training materials:
- Payroll (PAYL200: Additional Compensation and Payroll Requests):
  The following was updated to reflect the redesign of the Self Service Transaction Links page in UCPath:
  - ILT Course: Additional Compensation and Payroll Requests
  - Simulations:
    - Submit Final Pay Request
    - Submit Off-Cycle Pay Request
    - Submit One-Time Pay Request
    - Submit Overpay Pay Request
    - Submit Recurring Additional Pay Request
- Workforce Administration (WFAL250: Template Transactions – Part I):
  - Job Aid: Template Transactions – Action Reason Codes and Descriptions
    - Updated description of reason code for “RSR - Rehire - Retirement Suspended”
    - This job aid is also located under the following course:
      - WFAL260: Template Transactions – Part II

UCPath 04/23 - 04/30/2021

UCPath Changes & Enhancements: April 23, 2021 - April 30, 2021