Yesterday, OSHR released a draft revision of the state workplace violence policy to the agency HR Directors for review and comment. OSHR is intending to take the policy to the February 6 State Human Resources Commission meeting and have asked for agency/university...
HR Council
Technical Corrections to Adverse Weather Policy
As you know, shortly after we launched the Adverse Weather and Emergency Events policy in January 2016, interim president Junius Gonzales issued a memo in February 2016 setting the requirement that constituent institutions must request use of Condition 3 through the...
Important Update re: UNC System Salary Increase Freeze
TO: Chief Human Resources Officers, Academic Human Resources Leads I wanted to provide you an important update regarding the temporary freeze on selected salary increase actions that was originally communicated in my memorandum dated July 3,...
Faculty Salary Analysis Tool – DIR feedback requested by October 21st
Chief HR Officers, Below and attached are for your information. Dear Directors of Institutional Research, Please find attached a memo with information about a new Faculty Salary Analysis Tool. We are requesting that you preview the tool and provide feedback by Monday,...
Hispanic Heritage Month 2019
Please see the message below from OSHR regarding Governor Cooper’s proclamation of Sept. 15-Oct. 15 as Hispanic Heritage Month. Please communicate to your faculty and staff as appropriate. Governor Cooper signed a proclamation declaring September 15 to October 15,...
DOL Releases New Overtime Rule
Please see below email from CUPA on the DOL’s new overtime rule. This rule changes the salary threshold that an incumbent must earn in the position to be considered FLSA exempt. The salary that must be met has increased from $23,660 to $35,568. It appears that we...
Paid Parental Leave Approved
The Board of Governors approved the Paid Parental Leave plan during their meeting today. This program will provide eight weeks of fully paid parental leave to eligible employees who have given birth to a child, and four weeks of paid leave for non-birth parents in...
Date-Sensitive Draft Changes to IRIT Education and Experience Requirements
The IRIT IT Professional classifications have now been in place for a year. Based on campus feedback during this period, we are proposing a change to education and experience requirements for some classifications requiring higher levels of initial experience. IT...
Follow-up re: Status of Freeze on Selected Salary Actions and Bonus Leave
In follow-up to our phone call today, I wanted to offer further updates on two items. With re. to the currently enacted freeze on selected salary increase actions: The freeze has been lifted for the State “agencies.” It is not at all clear that this lifting of the...
System Office Quarterly Report: Q1 FY 19-20
The template for Q1 salary increase reporting is attached to this email. There are very few changes, with the following exceptions: Do not use the EHRA ARP reporting code at this point. We will expect to see all ARP increases reported on the Q2 report, once rules for...