human resources

Following an extensive nationwide search, Susi J. Takeuchi has been appointed as chief human resource and organization development officer for UCLA Health Sciences, effective Oct. 19.

President Napolitano has appointed a systemwide task force of UC faculty, staff and administrators to help develop a new set of retirement benefits options for UC to offer future employees hired on or after July 1, 2016.

A new University of California video, ‘Preparing for Retirement,’ guides faculty and staff through the process of retirement.

University of California employees are invited to vote for new representatives on the UC Retirement System (UCRS) Advisory Board May 19-June 17.

UCLA sociology professor emeritus David Lopez has been appointed inaugural UCLA faculty retirement liaison.

Ragini Gill has been appointed new director of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, as of May 4. Gill has been serving UCLA Health since 2006 as a retirement and benefits counselor as well as program manager for staff health and wellness. 

University of California employee contributions to the UC Retirement Plan will not increase for 2015, UC leadership recently announced.

UC’s annual Open Enrollment, an opportunity for faculty and staff to make changes to their 2015 medical plan and other benefits, ends on Tuesday, Nov. 25.

If they choose to pay for it, UCLA faculty and staff can choose to enroll in the ARAG legal plan, which is being offered with an enhanced identity theft benefit, during Open Enrollment.

UCLA Campus Human Resources is presenting Open Enrollment information sessions for faculty and staff, Nov. 3-21.

Rejeana Mathis, 2014-25 president of UCLA Staff Assembly, has led hundreds of staff and faculty in dozens of classes, workshops and retreats in her role as a management development coordinator with Campus Human Resources.

Stability is the watchword for this fall’s Open Enrollment. All of the current medical plans will be available in 2015, with a few benefits enhancements and no major changes.

Employee contributions to the University of California retirement plan will increase on July 1, 2014.

If you were enrolled in UC’s Flexible Spending Accounts (Health and/or Dependent Care) in 2013, you have until April 15, 2014, to submit your reimbursement claim forms.

The UC Office of the President issued a new policy that prohibits sexual harassment and sexual violence, provides support for victims and outlines training for faculty, staff and students.

The Office of the President (OP) is launching a new website on Feb. 6 that aims to make life easier for faculty, staff and retirees.   The new site, called UCnet, is the fruit of more than two years of development by OP’s communications...

Did you end up enrolled in the wrong medical plan for 2014?   UC made significant changes to its medical plan offerings for 2014, and some faculty and staff who did not make selections during Open Enrollment may have been defaulted to a plan...

The University of California has reached tentative agreement with two labor groups for multi-year contracts covering more than 12,000 health care, research and technical employees systemwide. The two bargaining groups, both represented by the...

If you’re currently enrolled in one of the four UC medical plans that are being discontinued, make your changes now. Open Enrollment closes on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 5 p.m. Discontinued plans include Anthem Blue Cross PLUS or PPO, Anthem Lumenos...