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<p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As we quickly move towards curtailment and the new year, Student Employment Services would like to share some important updates and reminders.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">UCPath DOWN TIME<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">UCPath will be offline starting at 10 pm on December 9 through 6 am on December 14. During this time, employees will not have access to the portal. Additionally, there may be delays to new/re-hire student employee
access to TRS. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>HANDSHAKE<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Effective December 15, 2020 UC Merced will move STUDENT position recruitments to a new on campus job posting platform, Handshake. To facilitate this move, the CatPAWS site will no longer accept
new applications after 5 pm on December 11, 2020.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">At 5 pm on December 11, 2020, all active job postings will be removed from the CatPAWS platform and will no longer be available for student application submissions. On December 15, 2020 any non-expired postings
previously listed in CatPAWS will be transitioned to Handshake. Applications received on or after December 15, 2020 in the new Handshake platform will be forwarded to the “Applicant Reviewer” via email. Please go
<a href="https://studentjobs.ucmerced.edu/handshake/applicant-reviewer-job-aid-handshake">
<span style="color:black">here</span></a> to learn more about the Applicant Reviewer role for Handshake.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hiring Managers/Supervisors should review their CatPAWS job pools and disposition appropriately no later than January 3, 2021. As of January 4, 2021, access to job pools in CatPAWS will be removed.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">Hiring Managers/Supervisors should attend the December 9, 2020 Handshake training session to learn more about how this change will impact them. A separate communication regarding the training will be sent.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">EARLY TIMESHEET SUBMISSION FOR BIWEEKLY EMPLOYEES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">To accommodate processing of the bi-weekly checks that will issue on January 6, 2020, it is necessary for bi-weekly paid employees to submit timesheets for the period of 12/13/20-12/26/20 earlier than the regular
submission date. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Timesheets for the above indicated period will be due for submission by employees no later than 12 pm on Saturday, December 19<sup>th</sup> and should include predicted hours of work through December 26<sup>th</sup>.
Supervisors should approve timesheets no later than 10 am on Monday, December 21st.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Additional campus wide communication will be distributed during the week of the early submission deadline.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">MINIMUM WAGE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Effective 1/1/20 the new minimum wage in California will be $14.00. The adjustment any student earning less than the new minimum wage will be automatically moved up. No action is needed by the department. An
updated 2021 student job pay scale can be found <a href="https://studentjobs.ucmerced.edu/sites/studentjobs.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/student_assistant_pay_schedule_-_2021.docx">
here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you for your continued patience and support.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092F44;text-transform:uppercase">MICHELLE SNYDER</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">UCM PAYROLL SERVICES</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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<span style="color:#999999">5200 Lake Road </span><span style="color:#DAAC00">|</span><span style="color:#999999"> Merced, California 95343<br>
bfs.ucmerced.edu/payroll-services </span><span style="color:#DAAC00">|</span><span style="color:#999999"> 209.259.8871</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#EEEEEE;letter-spacing:1.9pt;background:#092F44">BUILDING THE FUTURE IN THE HEART OF CALIFORNIA</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">You are receiving this notice because your name is listed in the UC Merced Student Employment Services mass communication to those who hire or employ student staff workers. If you no longer wish to receive
communications from Student Employment Services, please go<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="color:black"><a href="https://lists.ucmerced.edu/mailman/listinfo/studentemployment"><i><span style="color:#0563C1">here</span></i></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>and
unsubscribe. </i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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