Benefits for Berkeley Employees

Managing and administering employee benefits

 

General information

• Overview: The Guide to Managing Human Resources
• Consolidated Billing Issues
  • Deans & Directors memo dated 7/3/03
• Procedures for handling benefits for leaves
• Procedures for handling benefits for terminations
• Benefits information and online actions (UC systemwide website)
• Guide to the At Your Service website and interactive phone system

Eligibility

• Benefits eligibility chart
• Benefits packages
• Periods of Initial Eligibility (PIE)
• Ongoing Benefits Eligibility and Losing Benefits Eligibility
• Compliance
  • Procedures for working the BELI Out of Compliance Report
    • Status Qualifier Codes
  • Monthly reports of hours toward career conversion and benefits eligibility
    • Criteria for types of appointments and hours

Employment and life events

• New or newly eligible employees
  • Benefits procedures
  • Designate your beneficiaries online
  • New employee videos: Overview of Health & Welfare Plans and Retirement & Savings Plans
  • Family status changes
  • Rehired Retirees
  • Intercampus Transfers
• When an employee goes on leave
  • Benefits procedures
  • Checklists
  • Request to continue/cancel benefits during leave (Word) (PDF)
• When an employee returns from leave
• Benefits procedures
• When an employee separates
  • Benefits procedures
  • Checklists
  • COBRA instructions
  • Layoff
  • When an employee dies
• Work-related illness or injury
  

Benefits plans

• Medical plan information
  • Health Care Facilitator Program
• Savings and retirement information

Resources and tools

• Benefits Unit Contact List
• Checklists for Administering Benefits
• Join the email list for Department Benefits Counselors
• Exchange: the UCOP benefits intranet
• Forms and Publications: Resources for Departments
  • KP Online Ordering for benefits forms and publications
• Information resources on the HR website
• Workshops