Effective July 1, 2022, you will be able to view any changes in Benefits you may have made during the RCUH Open Enrollment period. Please log in to the ESS Portal, and open the Benefits tab. You will find your elected Benefits Summary located here. Please keep in mind that any changes to your Benefits are effective July 1, 2022. If you would like to view the changes, enter the date 07/01/2022.
If there are any questions regarding your benefits plans or elections, please contact RCUH Benefits immediately so we can assist you.
RCUH is now accepting tuition reimbursement applications. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible as requests are approved on a first come, first served basis, up to the limit of available funds. Please note that applications are due 2 business days prior to the first day of instruction in the applicable semester. For example, University of Hawaii’s first day of Summer 2022 (2nd Session) starts on July 5th, therefore, COMPLETED applications for the summer semester is due to us no later than Wednesday, June 29, 2022 by 5:00 PM.
Reminder: June 1-November 30 is hurricane season. For more information, please visit the NOAA Central Pacific Hurricane Center and take the time to review your family emergency plan. (https://www.ready.gov/hurricanes)
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 https://www.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 Unforeseen Disruption in Work Schedules Memorandum.
Please contact (808) 956-3100 or [email protected] if you have any questions
The deadline to submit Annual Performance Evaluations for RCUH employees will be September 16, 2022. It was previously communicated in the May 13th and May 17th HR training sessions that performance reviews were to be due on June 17th, but the deadline has been extended. An updated form will be distributed and posted online in early July, however evaluations completed on previous versions of the form will still be accepted.
ATTENTION: Principal Investigators & Regular-Status employees at 50-100% FTE
RCUH is now coordinating one-hour Individual/Employee Retirement (GRA/SRA) Plan Advisory Sessions with TIAA via virtual meetings June 7-9. Regardless of your current status – whether you are a long-time employee, just hired, or somewhere in between – it is never too early or too late to consider retirement planning. During these personalized sessions, you will be able to discuss your personal financial/retirement goals with a TIAA Financial Consultant on a free and confidential basis.
Because these sessions are being held during normal business hours, all employees must notify their PIs and supervisors if they would like to attend. We encourage Principal Investigators to allow their employees to attend the TIAA Advisory Sessions, if requested.
For employees unfamiliar with the SRA (Supplemental Retirement Annuity) plan, please note that unlike the GRA (Group Retirement Annuity) plan, there is no 12-month waiting period and you may enroll or make changes to your election at any time during the year. The SRA plan with TIAA 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 over and above the amount being accumulated under the RCUH basic retirement plan (GRA).
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.
A notification was sent out from the UH Office of Communications that effective Wednesday, May 25, 2022, face masks are once again required indoors across the University of Hawai’i System, except when working alone or separated from others by 6 feet or more. Restoration of this practice, consistent with current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations, was recommended by UH medical and public health experts and the State of Hawai’i Department of Health and affirmed by UH leadership.
Reinstatement of the comprehensive indoor mask requirement will help prevent further spread of the COVID-19 virus and better protect the health of everyone as every county in the state but one is currently assessed to have a “high” level of COVID-19 community transmission by the CDC. Only Hawaiʻi County is still rated “medium.” The CDC also ranks the state as 4th highest in the nation with an average 7-day case rate of 495.9 cases per 100,000 people.
The indoor face mask requirement will remain in place and be re-evaluated when the level of COVID-19 transmission in the state decreases.
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