Banner HR Updates...

Banner 8.x Upgrade Testing

Banner 8.x Upgrade testing has begun. Review the Banner 8.x Testing Plan for details.

Compensatory Time Payouts

A mistake was made regarding one of the compensatory time earn codes, the Compensatory Time Payout document details the corrective action taken.

2009 IRS W2 Forms

The 2009 IRS W2 Forms are complete and have been mailed to you via the U.S. Mail. You may access
your 2009 W2 data via WISE, USNH’s Web Information System for Employees at wise.unh.edu.

New Earn Codes for Bonus Awards

There is a need to do a better job at tracking the purpose of bonus awards, and two new earn codes have been set up for this purpose. The detail are as follows:
        Bonus – Recruitment Use NEW Earn Code 408
        Bonus – Range Max Use NEW Earn Code 409
        Bonus – Acting Appointment Use RENAMED Existing Earn Code 410
        Bonus – Performance Use RENAMED Existing Earn Code 417
The USNH Payroll Office has prepared a communication that describes when these codes should be used. It can be found at this link: Payroll New Earn Codes for Bonus Communication

2009 HR & Payroll Deadlines

The 2009 HR & Payroll Deadlines chart was re-published on Oct 28th, 2009 due to changes. Specifically the revisions were for Pay Period 2009-B1-26 and 2009-B2-26. Please refer to the latest version to ensure that your information is the most current.

WISE – NEW ENHANCEMENTS

Here is a consolidated list of all new enhancements in WISE. Please contact STHR if you have any questions:

     • Banner HR and Finance are just about done the work associated with changing from
        the SSN as the primary identifying number to a new randomly generated number.
        The conversion will take place the weekend of October 17-18 and all employees
        will have a new USNH ID on Monday, October 19. This is the number that employees
        will use to log into Aliquant and Banner HR. To assist with the transition, for a
        limited period of time, an employee can log into both Aliquant and WISE with either
        their SSN or their new USNH ID. Did you forget your new number? You can find it on
        WISE in the Personal Information section. Just click on the blue ball named ‘Display
        Your USNH ID’.

     • In order to get to the Pay Stub Detail pay, the employee must choose the
        specific pay period for which they want the data displayed. However, when that
        page pops up, there is no reference on it to identify the start/stop date of the
        pay period. That has been fixed and when an employee logs on now, they will see
        this information prominently displayed at the top. Note that on this screen, the
        employee’s SSN will always appear.

     • For your safety, the USER ID field on the WISE log in page has been converted to
        a masked field to block the display of the number entered. This will continue to be the
        case after the SSN conversion takes place on October 19.

     • Employees can update both their Campus E-Mail Addresses and their ACH
        addresses in WISE. A definition of each address type and ‘how to’ instructions
        are available in the ‘Personal Information’ section in WISE. Since the current
        address information in Banner HR defaults into WISE, this is a good way for employees
        to verify that their current information is accurate.

Activation of WISE Accounts

A new process has been created to automatically activate WISE accounts for new employees once their JOBS record is in the system. Employees should still contact the Help Desk at 603.862.4242 if they have any questions.

Manual Leave Adjustments

When manual adjustments are made to an employee’s VACL or ERTM balances, adjustments should be made to the beginning balance and NOT to the taken amount. An inflated Taken amount would make it appear that the employee had met their minimum usage requirement.

For example when converting ERTM to SKPL, sick pool does not count towards minimum usage so the employee’s Begin Balance should be reduced instead of adding to their Taken amount. If an increase to the Taken amount is the appropriate action required it can still be entered.

WISE Alert

At this time, WISE is using SSN or Alternate ID as the required USER ID log in. For your safety – and effective immediately – the USER ID field has been converted to a masked field to block the display of the SSN or Alternate ID when logging into WISE.

Payroll Calendar

The complete calendar of Payroll deadlines can be found on the Controller's website at:  http://finadmin.usnh.edu/Disbursements/Payroll/Forms/default.aspx.

Acceptable Use Policy

Each year it is our practice to send out a reminder to all Banner HR users to be especially careful with the access, review and disposition of sensitive employee information which includes, but is not limited to data about birth date, annual or hourly salary, benefits, and social security numbers. The full detail can be found at Acceptable Use Policy.

WISE!!! 2005

WISE (Web Information System for Employees) is a web based software application that allows all USNH employees to use a browser to log on from any location and obtain Employee Services and Personal information such as benefits/deductions, pay stub information, earnings history, and jobs summary data.  Employees can access WISE via this link:  http://wise.unh.edu

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Got Questions?

Call the Help Desk at 603.862.4242, or you may submit your question via the Web by completing a Banner Support Request Form.

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