Human Resources

The Universities of Wisconsin offer​ a comprehensive benefits package to meet the diverse needs of our community. The University contributes towards the cost of several benefit plans. This is a valuable piece of employees’ total rewards package. Other plans offer favorable group rates and convenient payroll deductions to employees. Some health and life insurance premiums are taken from salary on a pre-tax basis, saving employees money.

Below is overview information from UW Shared Services:

UWSP faculty, staff and student employees can explore more benefits information by following the link below.

ACA Overview

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), referred to more frequently as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is the health care reform legislation signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. Many of the key provisions of the law were designed to extend health insurance coverage to the uninsured, improve the quality and affordability of health insurance and reduce health care costs.

What does the ACA have to do with Payroll?

The Affordable Care Act includes the individual shared responsibility provision and the premium tax credit that may affect your annual tax return. More information can be found on the IRS website.

In addition, employees may receive a 1095-C from the University. If you have insurance through the UW System health insurance plan, you will also receive a 1095-B.

For more information visit the UW System ACA Frequently Asked Questions.

Student Employees – Additional ACA Information

To be in compliance with the Affordable Care Act and state legislation, student employees can work a maximum of 25 hours per week total during the academic semesters. The hour maximum is per week, not per pay period. If you have more than one campus job, you must coordinate your total hours working per week with all supervisors. Total hours per week include all jobs together.

Student employees may work up to a maximum of 40 hours per week during the non-academic semesters.

Detailed UWSP ACA information regarding hours worked

Student Employee ACA Acknowledgement

Want to learn more about the ACA?

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) support comes through our UWSP Risk Management team. Log into the resources below or reach out to their office for questions or assistance with a safety or training need.

UW-Stevens Point supports our employees in choosing well, doing well, and living well!

Everyone has a reason to be well. Maybe you enjoy coaching your child’s sports team, hiking with your friends, volunteering, or reaching a personal goal. Whatever or whoever is your reason, be ready for it by taking steps now to a healthy you! We take a holistic approach to supporting our employee’s well-being. We strive to provide options that support employees across the many dimensions of well-being:

• Emotional – Cultivating an emotional capacity that encompasses optimism, self-esteem, self-acceptance, and the ability to form healthy relationships.
• Environmental – Encouraging a way of life that maximizes harmony with the earth and minimizes harm to the environment.
• Financial – Ensuring the ability to effectively manage your current and future economic life.
• Intellectual – Exercising the mind through creative and stimulating mental activities to expand knowledge and improve skills.
• Occupational – Using your gifts, skills, and talents in order to gain purpose, happiness, and enrichment as part of a balanced life.
• Physical – Making a habit of healthy behaviors including adequate exercise, proper nutrition, and abstaining from harmful habits.
• Social – Developing the ability to interact successfully in our local and global community and creating networks of support.
• Spiritual – Possessing a set of guiding beliefs, principles, or values that help give direction to one’s life.

The HR office will partner directly with employees and supervisors to work through work concerns to find the best compliant solution for all parties.

Reach out directly to: Nora Boomer

• nboomer@uwsp.edu
• or hr@uwsp.edu to ask to have a meeting with Nora.

Use the resources on the webpage to support your professional and personal success at UW-Stevens Point.

Effective December 19, 2011, Executive Order #54 requires individuals whose employment brings them in contact with children to report any suspected abuse or neglect. As university staff, administrators and faculty, we are required to report any suspected maltreatment regarding the child’s health, safety, and welfare. Individuals making reports in good faith are immune from criminal and/or civil liability. If an individual intentionally fails to report suspected child abuse or neglect they may be fined up to $1,000, imprisoned for up to 6 months, or both.

Call 911 if the child is in imminent danger.

Reporting: When in doubt ask your supervisor, Human Resources, or place a call to your local social services agency (see link below).

EO54 Reporting to Agencies specific to the UWSP locations

All WI Child Protection Service Agencies

Reports are kept anonymous and should be directed to the appropriate county’s health and human services:

Training: All UW-Stevens Point employees are required to complete the training associated with this policy. The training is assigned in Canvas and is administered through UW System Shared Services.

Resources:

UWSP Policy

Executive Order #54

Report Child Abuse | Compliance & Integrity

Wisconsin Mandated Reporter Online Training

Offboarding is the process of preparing the employee, supervisor, and other specific personnel for an employee’s separation from the institution as a whole or from a specific department. This could be through retirement, taking a new job or moving between positions.

Please use the resources below to learn more about offboarding while at UWSP.

Performance Management is the ongoing process of structured feedback and communication between supervisors and employees to help the employee meet performance goals and align them with department and organizational objectives.  Supervisors should provide employees with clear objectives, ongoing and valuable feedback, professional development, and recognition for work well done. ​

Performance Reviews are a component of Performance Management.  The Universities of Wisconsin requires an annual formal performance review for all employees.  ​​UWSP employees should explore the performance management process using the link below.

We want our employees to invest in themselves as they grow in their roles at UWSP. We have resources for how to help learn to work with students and support them. There are also many professional development opportunities right here on campus as well as opportunities to explore in organizations and groups in the region and world depending on your department and work role.

UWSP employees can log in below to explore those resources.

Use the resources available on this page to coordinate a remote work arrangement. These resources support the initial request and reviews, the remote work agreement, and the resources for supervisors and employees to support remote work​. 

UWSP HR online resources include, but are not limited to, topics such as pay plan, managing time, managing employee time, time off and leave. Resources may require a log in.

Work​​day​​​ provides faculty, staff and student employees with an easy-to-use, secure gateway to online time, leave, and payroll information and “forms”.​ This is a resource page for information and tips sheets for navigating and using the Workday system.​​​

Have Time, Leave, or Earnings Questions?

Faculty and Staff:

Contact UW Shared Services Payroll Team at 888-298-0141 or GetHelpUW@support.wisconsin.edu​​​

Student Employees

Contact the HR Office at hr@uwsp.edu​

​Employees who are performing work for the University within the scope of employment and are on the University payroll are covered under Worker’s Compensation for work-related injuries.

If you are a UWSP employee, please report an injury to your supervisor or through this online form.

For any emergency, please contact UWSP Police or 911.

Additional information for UWSP employees can be found in Risk Management Resources.

Supervisors also have reporting and resources. Please review those resources and submit your report to Risk Management.