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Click through each link below to learn about various resources and updates. We invite you to regularly visit the Human Resources webpage at http://www.csun.edu/hr for more information regarding other important updates.
The CSU Employee Fee Waiver and Reduction Program provides for the waiver or reduction of certain fees for employees who enroll in work-related courses offered by the CSU for the purpose of improving skills for existing jobs, or advancement in accordance with a career development plan. In addition, an eligible CSU employee may transfer his or her fee waiver benefit to a spouse, domestic partner, or eligible dependent child. Only one person may use this benefit per semester, regardless of whether the individual uses the full two (2) courses or 6 units.
The CSU Fee Waiver module is currently available for Spring 2019 registration. In order to ensure timely processing, please submit your application no later than November 2, 2018
For more information, visit: http://www.csun.edu/benefits/fee-waiver-reduction-program.
The University will be closed on Monday, November 12, 2018, in observance of Veterans' Day. Classes will not be in session and most campus offices will be closed.
The University will be closed on Thursday, November 22, and Friday, November 23, 2018, in observance of Thanksgiving Day and Admission Day respectively. The campus will be closed and there will be no instruction through Sunday, November 25th.
Are you aware of our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefit, LifeMatters@CSUN? The program is designed to provide professional assistance to all faculty, staff and their families. The benefit includes three face-to-face counseling sessions available on a per problem basis with a licensed professional and an array of work/life resources.
We invite you to visit our LifeMatters@CSUN website to learn about all the services available to you and your family/household members. California State University, Northridge believes that the services provided through LifeMatters@CSUN can be a most valuable resource in helping faculty and staff maintain satisfying and productive lives, and we are pleased to include this service as an employee benefit.
Live Webinar: Family and Personal Budgeting | Wednesday, November 28
Content includes: Assessing your "money personality", saving more, establishing positive budgeting habits.
Two options: 12 noon Eastern/11 a.m. Central/9 a.m. Pacific and 3 p.m. Eastern/2 p.m. Central/12 noon Pacific
To access webinars:
• Go to www.mylifematters.com/my/
• For live webinars, click on the link for the webinar you would like to attend and follow the registration instructions. You must register prior to the start of the webinar to attend.
• Transcripts for non-captioned, archived webinars are available upon request.
Available as a Pre-Recorded Webinar: Be Thankful! Appreciate Your Co-Workers
Content includes: Expressing appreciation in the workplace, why it matters.
Manager Exchange, MaNEx for short, is a unique development opportunity for CSUN’s Management Plan Personnel (MPPs) and Department Chairs from across campus to gather and participate in the discussion and exploration of a management topic, as presented by a CSUN administrator or guest. Join us!
This particular session and topic is intended to reinforce the CSUN Leadership Principle of “Collaborative” and generate a discussion of what it means to the attendees and how they see themselves and fellow and future colleagues successfully demonstrating this quality. What are the personal and institutional challenges they face in “being” collaborative internally with their team(s) and externally with campus colleagues and community constituents - and how can this be rectified? We'll discuss the benefits of being collaborative and of developing such relationships.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Facilitated by: Colin Donahue, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Administration & Finance
Location: Human Resources Training Room, Oviatt Library 16, Garden Level
As a reminder, you can view your current Benefits Summary and Dependent Coverage in the CSUN portal. If you submitted changes as part of the annual Open Enrollment period, you can view those changes in the portal by changing the date field on those pages to "01/01/2019". Changes made during Open Enrollment (which closed October 5, 2018) will be effective January 1, 2019.
Thank you to all faculty and staff who attended the Benefits and Wellness Fair held September 20, 2018 in the University Student Union (USU), Northridge Center. The interactive event enabled the more than 400 attendees to meet with over 30 health care providers and campus partners. In addition, thank you for your donations that went to supporting the CSUN Food Pantry. For information, or to view the donation wish list, visit: https://www.csun.edu/mic/csun-
We hope you enjoyed the event and that your visit assisted you with getting ready for open enrollment and learning about the many on and off campus health and well-being resources available. We look forward to seeing you again next year!
You can view your 2018 Annual Member Statement by logging in to your MyCalPERS account at: https://www.calpers.ca.
Please ensure that your vacation balance as of January 1, 2019 is at or below your maximum carryover per your applicable bargaining agreement. You may view your leave balances online through the portal at www.csun.edu. Once in the portal, find the HR/Employee – Time & Attendance pagelet; click on View Absence Balances. If you are not able to view your balances, please see your department Timekeeper.
Also, remember to consider your vacation accruals for November and December when calculating the number of hours you must use before January 1st. For details concerning the calculation of your “Maximum Carryover Hours” refer to http://www.csun.edu/benefits/vacation.
Special note for Faculty: After one (1) full year of employment, a California Faculty Association (R03) employee who accrues vacation [Full-time ten (10) month and twelve (12) month faculty unit employees] shall take at least forty (40) hours of vacation each calendar year. Any part of the forty (40) hours not taken during the calendar year shall be forfeited by January 1 of the subsequent year (Article 34.7).
The safety and well-being of our campus community is a priority for CSUN. As such, we are committed to providing our employees with various online training modules for development and compliance training, including Title IX - Eliminate Campus Sexual Misconduct (EO 1095), EDU Supervisor: Anti-Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation (CA-13-H), and CSU: Preventing Discrimination and Harassment for Non-Supervisors.
All CSUN employees are requested to complete all mandatory training courses by 11:59 p.m. December 31, 2018. Access to the training system after that time will be shut-off in preparation for the roll out of a new learning management system and revised compliance courses. Any employee with compliance training in-progress but not completed by December 31 will be assigned the new compliance training courses.
For questions or issues with accessing the training, please contact Heather Kennedy in Human Resources at 818-677-5168
Dependent Re-Verification (DRV) is the process of re-verifying the eligibility of your spouse, domestic partner, children, stepchildren, and domestic partner children (family members) enrolled for state health and dental benefits. Government Code section 22843.1 mandates re-verifying the eligibility of your family members. Government Code section 22959 authorizes extending this review to your family members enrolled for dental benefits.
The eligibility of your family members will be re-verified once every three years. The re-verification period is based on your birth month. Employees born during the following months are required to re-verify family members during 2019: February, May, August and November.
For those employees with birthdays in February, CalPERS will mail you a letter in November 2018 explaining the process and the documentation required to maintain health coverage for your dependents. Please read and ensure Human Resources has your documents prior to February 1, 2019 in order for your dependent(s) to continue receiving health coverage and avoid cancellation on 03/1/2019.
For more information visit the following page: Health Care Dependent Re-Verification
