Reminder: June 1-November 30 is hurricane season. For more information on hurricane activity and education please visit:

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/

Employees are encouraged to sign up for UH Alert to be informed via text message about emergency situations affecting the 10 UH campuses http://hawaii.edu/alert. Notifications affecting UH campuses will be posted at http://hawaii.edu/emergency.

If a project is unable to offer work to their RCUH employees due to unforeseen disruptions, please follow the guidelines provided in the below memo.

Please contact (808)956-3100 or [email protected] if you have any questions.

ATTENTION:  Principal Investigators & Regular-status employees 50-100% FTE

With the new Fiscal Year in full swing, we would like to encourage RCUH employees to review their current retirement contributions! Perhaps you have been contemplating enrolling in RCUH’s Supplemental Retirement Annuity (SRA) but need more guidance? Or perhaps you already have a SRA and received a pay raise so, you are deciding whether or not you would like to increase your contributions? Regardless of your current status, we would like to invite you to attend the upcoming TIAA Individual Retirement Counseling Sessions at UH Manoa.

We encourage Principal Investigators to allow their employees to attend the TIAA Counseling Sessions if requested.  All employees must notify their PIs and supervisors if they would like to attend, as the sessions are being held during business hours.

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

A TIAA 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 options
• Learning about TIAA 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.  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 review Policy 3.560 RCUH Retirement Plans.

We have reserved the following dates and times for individual sessions:

Dates	Location	Times
August 7, 2018	East West Center John A. Burns Hall Room 4012 1601 East-West Road Honolulu, HI  96848	9:00am – 4:00pm
August 8, 2018	East West Center John A. Burns Hall Room 4012 1601 East-West Road Honolulu, HI  96848	9:00am – 4:00pm
August 9, 2018	East West Center John A. Burns Hall Room 4012 1601 East-West Road Honolulu, HI  96848	9:00am – 4:00pm

To schedule an appointment, please use our secure website at:

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

If you have questions or are unable to schedule an appointment online, please call TIAA’s Service and Scheduling Group at (800) 732-8353 Mon-Fri 6am – 3pm Hawaiʻi Standard Time.

Relevant Forms and Documents:

TIAA-SRA Supplemental Retirement Annuity – Agreement for Salary Reduction Form (B-6)

Meetings are accessible for individuals with disabilities.  Individuals who require special needs accommodations may request assistance in writing to [email protected] prior to the scheduled meeting.

NOTE: This is only applicable for those who submitted Annual Performance Evaluations by the June 15th deadline and are providing their employees with pay increases or one-time payments effective July 1, 2018. Pay adjustments are applicable to RCUH Regular-status employees (regardless of FTE) who successfully passed their probationary status.

TO:  Principal Investigators, Project Administrators and Fiscal Administrators

The online Pay Award/Personnel Action Form (PA/PAF) for salary adjustments effective July 1, 2018 will be available via the Human Resources Portal from June 22, 2018 through July 6, 2018. Principal Investigators must complete and submit the PA/PAF by Friday, July 6, 2018.

To access the online PA/PAF:

• Login to the Human Resources Portal
• Click on “Manage Employees” Tab
• Click on “Annual Pay Awards (PA/PAF)”

If you submitted a Performance Evaluation to shorten an employee’s probationary period (i.e., June 30, 2018) and would like to provide the employee with a pay increase or one-time payment effective July 1, 2018, you must complete an ePAF – Performance Evaluation/Award. The ePAF must be processed via the RCUH Human Resources Portal and is different from the PA/PAF. The deadline to submit an ePAF is July 10, 2018.

To access the online ePAF:

• Login to the Human Resources Portal
• Click on “Manage Employees” Tab
• Click on “Employee Changes (ePAF)”
• Select Action: Performance Evaluation/Award, Post-Probation Performance Evaluation

NOTE:  For pay increases/one-time payments effective October 1, 2018, all performance evaluations must be submitted to RCUH Human Resources by September 14, 2018. The online Pay Award/Personnel Action Form (PA/PAF) will be available via the Human Resources Portal from September 21, 2018 through October 5, 2018.

If you have any questions, please contact one of the RCUH Human Resources staff for further assistance.

Name                                     Phone                                    Email

Sharon Vong                         956-0871                              [email protected]
Jennifer Lin                           956-7106                              [email protected]
Stacie Kondo                        956-8953                              [email protected]
Taylor Sumi                          956-6318                              [email protected]

Thank you!

To: Principal Investigators & Fiscal Administrators

The RCUH Fringe Benefit and Pay Schedule for Fiscal Year July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019 is now available.

Please see Policy 3.510 RCUH Fringe Benefits Schedule and 3.330 RCUH Pay Schedules for the updated documents.