Benefits
Recruitment & Employment
Employee Relations
Compensation
Potpourri
100

Employee has twelve or more months of cumulative service, has worked at least 1,250 regular hours in the twelve months prior, and has (or qualified family member has) a serious health condition.

What is the eligibility criteria for Family Medical Leave?

100
These employees do not have an exemption from eligibility to earn overtime compensation.
Non-exempt employees.
100
The cost reduction activity that was not mandated in fiscal year 2009-2010 for UA employees.
What is "furlough?"
100
$7.25 per hour
What is the federal minimum wage that went into effect in July 2009?
100
EmplID
What is the UAccess name for EID?
200

All excess hours over 1 1/2 times the annual accrual rate will be forfeited effective January 2011.

What is the new policy regarding excess vacation hours and when will it go into effect?

200
This was recently extended from 3 months to 6 months.
What is the recent change in the policy for the transfer probation period?
200
Life & Work Connections
What is the on campus resource for free, voluntary and confidential employee assistance counseling?
200
Accumulated vacation hours not to exceed the amount earned in one year.
What is the vacation payout for eligible employees who resign, are laid off, or are discharged?
200
COBRA
What is the name of a big snake often found in India? What is the acronym for the Consolidated Omnibus Benefits Reconciliation Act?
300
What is $25 plus any laboratory, course or materials fees?
The QTR benefit for benefits-eligible employees and their children.
300
This happens twice a year and will remain active for five months at a time.
What is the posting timeframe for the UA Talent Network?
300
This is NOT allowed in a University owned vehicle.
What is smoking?
300
The place to find Regular Classified Staff job descriptions and pay schedules.
What is the UA HR website? (www.hr.arizona.edu)
300
Audrey Pallet, Ashley Lott, Patricia Markel, Liz Beckett Firmage, Sue Mathews
Who are the original members of the AHSC HR Liaisons Group Steering Committee?
400
MedImpact.
What is the name of the new pharmacy plan provider introduced to UA employees during open enrollment 2009?
400
This employment type lasts at least 6 months but no more than 24 months.
What is Classified Staff Extended Temporary Employment (ETE)?
400
Performance appraisals. Successive actions that must precede the discharge of a non-probationary staff employee.
What is progressive discipline (or, written warning, etc.)?
400
1) the University will not recover the dollar value of used paid leave time, and 2) earned and unused vacation hours will be paid out in the final paycheck.
What are the key changes to the Classified Staff policy for initial 6-month probation and the use of paid leave time that began on October 1, 2009?
400
1. Return to work. 2. Request an accomodation to return to work. 3. Request an extension. 4. Do not return to work.
What are the 4 situations that could occur when an employee is due to return from Family Medical Leave?
500
4 months and 29 work days worked consecutively at an FTE of .50 or greater.
What is retirement eligibility?
500
Duties test, salary level test, salary basis test.
What 3 tests must a 'job' meet in order to be considered exempt from overtime provisions (Part541, Fair Labor Standards Act)?
500
Goes into effect in October 2010.
What is HB2013, orf the bill passed by the Arizona Legislature in 2009 that narrows the definition of a dependent regarding continued benefits coverage?
500
Inequity in employee pay occurring when the range of pay between the highest- and lowest-paid employees is unfairly small compared to their range.
What is salary compression?
500
DAISY!
What is the name of Cathy Nicholson's dog?
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