What actions are UC Berkeley HR and Payroll offices taking to ensure that this issue will not happen again?

Short-term, we have taken the necessary steps to fix the error, and we have put new monitoring processes in place to ensure that similar issues are identified and immediately addressed.

Long-term, UC Berkeley will transition away from the 30+ year-old HR and Payroll systems that made us vulnerable to this type of error. By 2014, UC Berkeley will replace the existing system with a new state-of-the-art HR and Payroll system called UCPath.