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Broadcast Email Archive 2022
May 6, 2022
May 6, 2022
ConnectHR Telework Stipend Resources
Action Required by Department: Share the following information with all human resources (HR) office employees.
Description: The State Controller’s Office (SCO) has released updated versions of the following resources to support the processing of the Telework Stipend Pay Differential digitally using the ConnectHR platform. See below:
The updated version of the Telework Stipend Template must be used to create the batch payment file. File created using the older version of the Telework Stipend Template will not be accepted.
For assistance with these resources, please contact ConnectHRHelp@sco.ca.gov.
Population Affected: All HR Offices.
Contacts:
- Affordable Care Act (ACA) Email acasupport@sco.ca.gov
- Cal Employee Connect Email connecthelp@sco.ca.gov
- Cal Employee Connect Feedback Email connectfeedback@sco.ca.gov
- California Leave Accounting System (CLAS) Email Clas@sco.ca.gov
- ConnectHR Email (All HR Staff) connecthrhelp@sco.ca.gov
- ConnectHR Feedback Email (All HR Staff) connecthrhelp@sco.ca.gov
- CS Escalation Email (HR Supervisors and Managers) PPSDOps@sco.ca.gov
- HR Suggestions Email (All HR Staff) PPSDHRSuggestions@sco.ca.gov
- Management Information Retrieval System (MIRS) Email ppsdmirs@sco.ca.gov
- Statewide Customer Contact Center (916) 372-7200
SCO Key Initiatives:
Websites:
Payroll Letter #22-005: REPRESENTED EMPLOYEE CASH OUT OF VACATION/ANNUAL LEAVE PROGRAM – FISCAL YEAR 2021- 2022
Payroll Letter #22-005: REPRESENTED EMPLOYEE CASH OUT OF VACATION/ANNUAL LEAVE PROGRAM – FISCAL YEAR 2021- 2022 has been published on the State Controller's Office (SCO) website located at: http://www.sco.ca.gov/ppsd_sco_letters.html.
You can go directly to this letter by clicking on the following address: https://www.sco.ca.gov/Files-PPSD-Letters/Payr/2022_p22-005.pdf.
Please direct your questions to the appropriate contact(s) listed in the Payroll Letter.
For your information, the State Human Resources Departments link on the SCO website offers various personnel/payroll related tools and resources. This information is located at: http://www.sco.ca.gov/ppsd_state_hr.html.
SCO Key Initiatives:
Payroll Letter #22-004: 2022 EXCLUDED EMPLOYEE LEAVE BUY-BACK PROGRAM
Payroll Letter #22-004: 2022 EXCLUDED EMPLOYEE LEAVE BUY-BACK PROGRAM has been published on the State Controller's Office (SCO) website located at: http://www.sco.ca.gov/ppsd_sco_letters.html. You can go directly to this letter by clicking on the following
address: https://www.sco.ca.gov/Files-PPSD-Letters/Payr/2022_p22-004.pdf.
Please direct your questions to the appropriate contact(s) listed in the Payroll Letter.
For your information, the State Human Resources Departments link on the SCO website offers various personnel/payroll related tools and resources. This information is located at: http://www.sco.ca.gov/ppsd_state_hr.html.
SCO Key Initiatives:
Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) Reminders
Action Required by Department: Share the following information with all human resources (HR) office employees.
Description: The State Controller's Office (SCO), Personnel and Payroll Services Division is sharing the following reminders to HR offices to assist with processing Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) related transactions.
- OPEB Collective Bargaining Identifier (CBID) – OPEB CBID is a computer-generated item in the Employment History (EH) system. HR offices must process a 126 transaction to initiate, update, or change the employee’s OPEB CBID or Employee CBID. A 126 transaction should only be effective on the first day of a pay period, whether updating Employee CBID or OPEB CBID. If the employee’s OPEB CBID is changing, you must enter the Employee CBID to update the OPEB CBID.
- Permanent Intermittent Employee - When a Permanent Intermittent employee works the appropriate number of hours and becomes eligible for retirement and you key enter a 505 transaction to effect the employee’s retirement status, you must also key enter a 126 transaction to computer generate the employee’s OPEB CBID.
- The following OPEB resources are also available on the SCO website:
Population Affected: All HR Offices.
Contacts:
- Affordable Care Act (ACA) Email acasupport@sco.ca.gov
- Cal Employee Connect Email connecthelp@sco.ca.gov
- Cal Employee Connect Feedback Email connectfeedback@sco.ca.gov
- California Leave Accounting System (CLAS) Email Clas@sco.ca.gov
- ConnectHR Email (All HR Staff) connecthrhelp@sco.ca.gov
- ConnectHR Feedback Email (All HR Staff) connecthrhelp@sco.ca.gov
- CS Escalation Email (HR Supervisors and Managers) PPSDOps@sco.ca.gov
- HR Suggestions Email (All HR Staff) PPSDHRSuggestions@sco.ca.gov
- Management Information Retrieval System (MIRS) Email ppsdmirs@sco.ca.gov
- Statewide Customer Contact Center (916) 372-7200
SCO Key Initiatives:
Websites: