TO:                 All RCUH Principal Investigators and Employees   FROM:           RCUH Human Resources SUBJECT:     OSHA Update: Ebola Safety Information   On October 15, 2014, The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released general guidelines and information regarding occupational safety to the Ebola virus. This information is summarized below. Further OSHA information regarding Ebola can be found … Continue reading “OSHA Update: Ebola Safety Information”

RCUH is accepting nominations for its annual Outstanding Employee of the Year Awards Program from now through November 13, 2014.   This awards program is to encourage, recognize, and reward RCUH employees who have made demonstrable, significant and outstanding contributions to their project during the previous year.   Any Regular RCUH employee or groups of … Continue reading “2014 RCUH Outstanding Employee of the Year – Accepting Nominations”

RCUH will be conducting a Workplace Violence Prevention Training session on the Big Island and Maui.  It is mandatory that all employees and supervisors of RCUH attend.  This is a 4-hour session. Everyone (including non-RCUH employees) is welcome to attend.  Seating is limited.  Priority for seating will be given to RCUH employees and supervisors of … Continue reading “TRAINING – Workplace Violence Prevention (Big Island and Maui)”

TO:                 Principal Investigators & Project Administrators FROM:           Nelson Sakamoto                        Director of Human Resources   SUBJECT:     November 4, 2014 General Election – Guidance relating to Voting   Under Hawai’i Revised Statutes § 11-95, any employee registered to vote, and who normally does not have a free two-hour period, excluding lunch/rest periods/breaks, while voting polls are … Continue reading “November 4, 2014 General Election – Guidance relating to Voting Time”

TO:      All Regular-Status, 50%-100% Full-Time Equivalency (FTE) t    Employees   Effective October 21, 2014, TIAA-CREF, RCUH’s third-party administrator for retirement plans, Group Retirement Annuity (GRA) and Supplemental Retirement Annuity (SRA), launched a new website enhanced feature.  In order to streamline the withdrawal process for participants and plan sponsors, eligible participants are now able to … Continue reading “RCUH – TIAA-CREF Individual Participant Website Enhancement”