On July 24, 2017, The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it would resume premium processing for certain cap-exempt H-1B petitions. The press release states that “premium processing will resume for petitions that may be exempt from the cap if the H-1B petitioner is: an institution of higher education; a nonprofit related to or affiliated with an institution of higher education; or a nonprofit research or governmental research organization.”

Since USCIS temporarily suspended premium processing for all H-1B petitions on April 3, 2017 to help reduce overall processing times, it has resumed premium processing for certain H-1B petitions as its workload permits.

Please find the official press release at the USCIS website:

https://www.uscis.gov/news/uscis-resume-h-1b-premium-processing-certain-cap-exempt-petitions

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact RCUH Immigration at: [email protected]

Attention: RCUH Staff who are requesting a parking permit or subject for renewal of a parking permit on the UH Manoa campus for the upcoming semester(s)

RCUH Human Resources can assist to supply the proof of employment if required for parking permit requests. RCUH staff should email [email protected] or call (808) 956-7307 to request for the proof of employment. In turn, an RCUH representative will email the proof of employment to employee.

Please contact RCUH Human Resources at [email protected] or (808) 956-7307 if you have any questions.

In order to minimize searching for the RCUH timesheets each pay period, we will have the current RCUH timesheet available in the Current News section of the RCUH website on the first working day of each pay period.

Click here for the August 1-15, 2017 Timesheet
Payroll Deadline is August 15, 2017 noon
Payday for this timesheet is August 22, 2017

**Payroll Deadlines are strictly enforced – NO EXCEPTIONS

Click here for the August 16-31, 2017 Timesheet

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] or 956-3100.

We are excited to announce that the RCUH Human Resources Department will be upgrading our HR System to PeopleSoft 9.2 on Tuesday, September 26, 2017.

Please disregard our previous announcement regarding down time for RCUH Human Resources Systems sent out on Thursday, July 27th. There will be NO scheduled down time on the RCUH Human Resources system this week. If you have any questions, please contact Stacie Kondo at (808) 956-8953 or [email protected].

 

TO:      All RCUH Employees

On July 10, 2017, Governor David Ige passed Act 128 into law, which is a revision of the provision of the Hawai‘i Family Leave Law (HFLL) outlined in Chapter 398, HRS, to expand eligibility requirements to include the coverage of an employee’s sibling who has a serious health condition.

Employees who meet the eligibility requirements for HFLL as defined in the 3.660 RCUH Family Leave policy and have a sibling who has a serious health condition may apply for HFLL to care for his/her sibling.  HFLL provides up to four (4) weeks of family leave entitlement for an employee per 12-month calendar year.

Employees who wish to apply for Hawai’i Family Leave to care for a sibling, birth of a child and to care for the newborn, placement of a child with you for adoption, care for a spouse, civil union partner, reciprocal beneficiary, child, parent, parent-in-law, legal guardian, grandparent, or grandparent-in-law with a serious health condition will need to submit the B-11 Family Leave Request Form and a Certification of Health Care Provider Form for Family Member’s Serious Health Condition (WH-380-F) to RCUH Human Resources Benefits Section for approval.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact RCUH Benefits at (808) 956-6979 or [email protected].

ATTENTION:  Regular status employees 50-100% FTE

If you are currently participating in RCUH’s Group Retirement Annuity (GRA) and/or Supplemental Retirement Annuity (SRA) plans administered through TIAA-CREF OR if you are interested in enrolling into a TIAA-CREF SRA plan, the RCUH Human Resources Department is now coordinating one-hour Individual/Employee Retirement Counseling Sessions with TIAA-CREF.  During these meetings, you will be able to discuss your personal financial/retirement goals with a TIAA-CREF Financial Consultant, on a free and confidential basis.

A TIAA-CREF representative will be able to assist you with planning for your retirement goals, including:

• Setting realistic goals for key life events and retirement
• Reviewing your investment mix and strategy
• Selecting your TIAA-CREF options
• Learning about TIAA-CREF retirement income flexibility

For employees unfamiliar with the SRA plan, it is considered a 403(b) tax-deferred annuity plan which allows an employee to make contributions via payroll deduction from his/her pre-tax earnings towards an individual retirement plan (i.e., SRA) through our third party administrator, TIAA-CREF.  Enrolling or making changes to your SRA election may be done at any time during the year. For more information about the GRA and SRA plans, please go to our website, www.rcuh.com and review the RCUH Retirement Plans Policy (3.560).

We have reserved the following dates and times for Individual Sessions:

Dates	Location	Times
August 8, 2017	JABSOM Medical Education Building Room 224p – Honolulu 651 Ilalo St. Honolulu, HI 96813	9:00am – 4:00pm
August 9, 2017	JABSOM Medical Education Building Room 224p – Honolulu 651 Ilalo St. Honolulu, HI 96813	9:00am – 4:00pm
August 10, 2017	JABSOM Medical Education Building Room 302 – Honolulu 651 Ilalo St. Honolulu, HI 96813	9:00am – 4:00pm

To schedule an appointment, please use our secure Web site at:

http://www.tiaa-cref.org/schedulenow

If you have questions or are unable to schedule an appointment online, please call our Service and Scheduling Group at 800-732-8353 Mon-Fri 6am – 3pm Hawaii time.

Meetings are accessible for individuals with disabilities.  For more information or to request an accommodation due to your disability, contact YeeYeng Lim at (808) 956-6979 or email [email protected] at least one week prior to the session.

Attention: Project Administrators who assist new hires in completing Form I-9

On July 17, 2017, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a revised version of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.

Effective immediately, RCUH Human Resources will utilize the revised version of the Form I-9. All new hires will be required to complete the revised version, dated 07/17/2017.

Revisions to the Form I-9 instructions:

• USCIS changed the name of the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices to its new name, Immigrant and Employee Rights Section.
• USCIS removed “the end of” from the phrase “the first day of employment.”

Revisions related to the List of Acceptable Documents on Form I-9:

• USCIS added the Consular Report of Birth Abroad (Form FS-240) to List C. Employers completing Form I-9 on a computer will be able to select Form FS-240 from the drop-down menus available in List C of Sections 2 and 3. E-Verify users will also be able to select Form FS-240 when creating a case for an employee who has presented this document for Form I-9.
• USCIS combined all the certifications of report of birth issued by the Department of State (Form FS-545, Form DS-1350, and Form FS-240) into selection C #2 in List C.
• USCIS renumbered all List C documents except the Social Security card. For example, the employment authorization document issued by the Department of Homeland Security on List C changed from List C #8 to List C #7.

Please click on the links below for more detailed information about the revised Form I-9.

USCIS Revised Form I-9 Available

I-9 Central

Handbook for Employers M-274

Should you have any questions, please contact RCUH Human Resources at 808-956-7307 or [email protected].

In order to minimize searching for the RCUH timesheets each pay period, we will have the current RCUH timesheet available in the Current News section of the RCUH website on the first working day of each pay period.

Click here for the July 16-31, 2017 Timesheet
Payroll Deadline is August 1, 2017 noon
Payday for this timesheet is August 7, 2017

**Payroll Deadlines are strictly enforced – NO EXCEPTIONS

Click here for the August 1-15, 2017 Timesheet

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] or 956-3100.

The RCUH Human Resources Portal and Employee Self-Service will be down Monday, 7/10/17 from 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM for system maintenance.

Should you have any questions, please contact Stacie Kondo at (808) 956-8953 or [email protected].

**Please note this training is managed and conducted by the Hawaii State Ethics Commission and not RCUH. Feel free to contact the Hawaii State Ethics Commission directly with any questions or concerns – contact information can be found at the bottom of this announcement.

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**The Kauai ethics training class for state employees for August 4, 2017 is full. Registration for this class is now closed. Please see the Hawaii State Ethics Commission 2017 Ethics Training Schedule for other available classes.**

Classes are open to all state employees.  Please forward this information to employees in your agency and encourage employees who have not received ethics training to attend an ethics training this year.

Please contact the Hawaii State Ethics Commission office at (808) 587-0460 or [email protected] with any questions you may have.

Thank you for your support of ethics education!

Hawaii State Ethics Commission
1001 Bishop Street, Suite 970
Honolulu, Hawaii  96813

Telephone:  (808) 587-0460