Announcements

New York State updated its guidelines related to travel outside of New York State* on November 4, 2020. 

For travelers who were out-of-state for more than 24 hours: Travelers must obtain a test within three days of departure, prior to arrival in New York.

*The traveler must, upon arrival in New York, quarantine for three days.

*On day 4 of their quarantine, the traveler must obtain another COVID test. If both tests comes back negative, the traveler may exit quarantine early upon receipt of the second negative diagnostic test. 

The State University of New York (SUNY) provides employees with the opportunity to save for their retirement through the SUNY Voluntary 403(b) Savings Plan (the Plan). Participation in the SUNY Voluntary Savings Plan is a great way to build your retirement savings.

Whether you want to enroll in the plan for the first time, or you are already enrolled but want to change the amount of your deferral, you can accomplish your goal through the SUNY online enrollment and management system www.retirementatwork.org/suny. 

ELIGIBILITY 

The 2021 Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP) allows eligible employees represented by CSEA to exchange vacation and/or personal leave for a credit to be applied toward their health insurance premium. The PEP Credit will be applied to biweekly paychecks issued between January 1st and December 31st of 2021.

The enrollment period for the 2021 calendar year is through November 30, 2020.

Supervisors are reminded to report any instance of a COVID-19 symptomatic employee or COVID-19 positive employee to Human Resources.

The 2021 Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP) allows eligible employees represented by UUP to exchange vacation leave for a credit to be applied toward their health insurance premium. The PEP Credit will be applied to biweekly paychecks issued between January 1st and December 31st of 2021.   

 The enrollment period for the 2021 calendar year is from Monday November 2 to Monday November 30, 2020.

 Eligible full-time employees with a salary of $70,947 and below who enroll in PEP for the 2021 plan year will forfeit a total of three days of vacation leave in return for a credit of up to $600 or six days of leave for a credit of $1200 to be applied toward the employee share of NYSHIP premiums. 

The open enrollment period for 2021 Flex Spending Account is November 2, 2020 to November 30, 2020. The Flex Spending Account (FSA) includes the Dependent Care Advantage Account (DCAAccount), the HealthCare Spending Account (HCSAccount), and the Adoption Advantage Account.

As each member of the campus community continues to play a key role in helping SUNY Oswego flatten the curve and slow the spread of COVID-19, we want to ensure that we are doing everything to remain healthy for the rest of the semester.

All employees who are required to report to campus in person for some or all of their work obligations are required to get tested for COVID-19 on campus every three weeks. Please go to tickets.oswego.edu to schedule a COVID-19 test.  It is the employee’s responsibility to schedule their COVID-19 test to meet the three week requirement.

With Election Day right around the corner we wanted to remind everyone of the legislation passed in April, 2020 amending the Election Law. Employees may take up to two hours of paid leave to vote in any election in New York State, when the employee does not have sufficient time to vote before or after their work shift.

If an employee has four consecutive hours either between the opening of the polls and the beginning of the employee’s work shift, or between the end of their work shift and the closing of the polls, that employee is considered to have sufficient time to vote.

If an employee does not have four consecutive hours to vote as defined above, up to two hours of time may be taken without loss of pay to allow that employee time to vote.

UUP employees who have accrued holidays and/or floating holidays during the period of May 2019 through September 2019 will have the ability to carry over these accruals through December 31, 2020. Normally these earned holidays expire if not charged within one year. These accrued holidays will automatically carry over through December 31, 2020. Any holiday and/or floating holidays accrued during this time period will not expire as usual.

If you have any questions, please contact the Payroll Office at Payroll@Oswego.edu.