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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Colleagues, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">  </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">As we move closer to the end of another academic year at UC Merced, we would like to provide some important reminders regarding student employees. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Separations</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> – A student worker who is no longer performing
 services (voluntarily or involuntarily) must have their UCPath record updated as soon as the employment relationship change is known. Please submit the </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://bfs.ucmerced.edu/form/student-separation-non-academic" title="https://bfs.ucmerced.edu/form/student-separation-non-academic"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Student
 Separation</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> form and the employee’s final timesheet as soon as the separation is known. <i>Exception:  If a student will return in fall, you may leave them active, but submission of zero-hour
 timesheets is required to avoid reminder notices to submit. </i></span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Final Pay</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> – Student worker timesheets should be submitted
 and approved 5 business days prior to their expected </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">end</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> date.  It is the supervisor’s responsibility to ensure that all final hours
 are timely reported.  TRS allows the approver to create, edit and submit timesheets on behalf of the employee.  If the employee does not submit their final time, please do so on their behalf.  Final pay will be issued if the terminating job record </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">end</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">s
 all employment association with UC Merced. </span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Academic</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Students (Reader/Remedial Tutor) – These jobs do NOT auto terminate
 and supervisors MUST submit an </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://bfs.ucmerced.edu/form/academic-separation" title="https://bfs.ucmerced.edu/form/academic-separation"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Academic</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"> Separation</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">form
 in addition to submitting the student’s final timesheet. </span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Auto termination</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> – Student worker records are set
 to automatically </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">end</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> on the date listed in UCPath.  Auto terminations are considered involuntary and require all pay owed to be issued
 on the on the individual’s final day of work. Please regularly review the UCPath Cognos Report R-103 to manage student records with upcoming </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">end</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> dates. </span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If an extension is needed, please use the </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://bfs.ucmerced.edu/form/student-rate-change" title="https://bfs.ucmerced.edu/form/student-rate-change"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Student
 Rate Change and/or Job Extension</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">form and submit it no less than 10 business days before
 the indicated </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">end</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> date. <b><u>Once a job has auto terminated, all work must cease. </u> </b></span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo4"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Reinstatement</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> – If a job record has auto terminated
 and needs to be reinstated, please submit the </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://bfs.ucmerced.edu/form/student-rate-change" title="https://bfs.ucmerced.edu/form/student-rate-change"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Student
 Rate Change and/or Job Extension</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">form, and indicate a reinstatement is needed. Auto terminations
 will not be reinstated if the student has been inactive for more than 10 business days. Records inactive for 10 business days or more will require a new Student Intake request and the completion of hiring documents, even if the student has continued to work. A
 break in service will require the completion of rehire documents. </span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Graduating Seniors</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> –</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Graduating
 seniors must have been active and working in their current positions during Spring semester to be eligible for extension through Summer Intercession. Extensions through Summer must terminate the day before Fall instruction begins (first day of instruction).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:9.0pt;mso-list:l6 level2 lfo4">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Graduating seniors may not apply for or accept “new” campus student employment positions after graduation.<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Students graduating in Spring 2025 may work until the
<b><i>day before</i></b> Fall 2025 Instruction begins on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:#323336;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l6 level3 lfo4">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">UC Merced Academic Calendars: </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://registrar.ucmerced.edu/schedules/calendars"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0F2D52">https://registrar.ucmerced.edu/schedules/calendars</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo4">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Summer Employment</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">–
 Campus Departments must formally extend the appointment of those students who will continue to work over the summer. To extend employment the Hiring Manager must use the </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://bfs.ucmerced.edu/form/student-rate-change" title="https://bfs.ucmerced.edu/form/student-rate-change"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Student
 Rate Change and/or Job Extension</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">form and submit it no less than 10 business days
 before the indicated job end date within UCPath. Student employees should be extended only if there is reasonable certainty that the student will return to the same Department and job in the fall.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:54.7pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Students working in the summer are limited to 40 hours per week. During the summer Student employees may work up to 40 hours up until the
<b><i>last day</i></b> before the start of Fall instruction begins on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Student employees who work during the summer will see a change in their paychecks as FICA will be taken out during the months that they are not enrolled in a minimum number of Departments
 required for FICA exemption (6).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 double check the form data before submitting.  If information is inaccurate, the submitter will be asked to complete the form again.  Please be particularly mindful of the employee’s previously established Employee ID number (NOT student ID number), position
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 and submit requests timely.  Failure to submit actions by the deadlines indicated may result in a delay of pay to your employee.  </span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please visit the </span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><a href="https://studentjobs.ucmerced.edu/" title="https://studentjobs.ucmerced.edu/"><span style="color:#0078D7">Student
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