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UCPath Ongoing Projects

Please visit UCPath Deployed Projects to view the projects and initiatives that are Live. Below is a high-level summary of our ongoing UCPath projects impacting UC Merced. The projects below are on the UCPath Roadmap to go live for November 2024 through July 2025:

TBD

  • Improve Accrual Management: Improve UCPath leave accrual processing by leveraging delivered PeopleSoft Absence Management functionality to calculate, validate and correct the system leave balances.

November Release 2024 - 11/25/2024

  • Automate Security Deprovisioning (Inter-Location): Security access for employees is currently decentralized and manually handled at the location level. When employees experience an inter-location transfer, this will require updated security provisions by the former and new locations. When this is not done timely, the UCPath Center Security team must manually identify and update the employee’s security provisions at the former location to allow the new location to grant appropriate access.
     
  • Direct Entry Enhancements: Provide an enhanced process for locations to enter new hires for Employees, Contingent Workers, and Concurrent Hires directly into UCPath with an approval framework.
     
  • Rewrite GL Assessments - Local: Consolidate, centralize and streamline the generation of assessment information including:

    • Calculate assessments after summary and detail labor ledger results are generated adhering to new service level agreements (SLAs)

    • Separate assessment into individual processes independently of other GL processes.

March Release 2025 - 03/24/2025

  • Rehire Retiree MSP & ACA Compliance Project: 

    Update the benefit eligibility processes for rehired retirees to comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) rules. This involves PeopleSoft Benefits Administration (UCPath) for retiree rehires and configuring Retirement Administration Services Center – Redwood (RASC) to suspend their retirement benefits.

    There are two major components of this project, both are reliant and interdependent upon the other.  PeopleSoft Benefits Administration must be configured to allow Retirees to be Rehired.  Redwood must be configured and possibly coded to allow for the suspension of Retirement Benefits for the Rehire.
     

  • Improve Retro Processing:  Improve Retro Processing, create visibility for pay cycle processing schedule.
    • Provide locations more time, additional details to review and address discrepancies
    • Provide locations visibility to scenarios where additional action is required,
    • Provide more consistent processing of retros, improve pay and benefit accuracy,
    • Automate retro processing for UCpath to process retro requests with minimal manual intervention and reduced processing time.
    • Optimize delivered functionality and minimize manual intervention
    • Efficiently manage change by partnering proactively with Training/Location Change Management
       
  • Improve Final Pay (Phase 2) [TBD]

    • Streamline and reduce the effort to complete final pay activities

    • Increase final pay accuracy by reducing manual entry and eliminating comment fields

    • Increase data integrity by using UCPath data to drive final pay

    • Improve leave, accrual and retirement accuracy (ensures rehired employees have accurate leave, accrual and retirement information)

    • Improve the Off-boarding process by:

    • Ensuring critical information is gathered such as employees personal email and home address (allows former employees to access UCPath for historical W-2 and pay information)

    • Improving pay accuracy by inactivating out-of-date additional pay and deductions (streamlines rehiring employees)

    • Improving employee information security by deactivating direct deposit accounts

  • UCPath Upgrade 2025: Yearly UCpath Upgrade for PUM, Tools and Mulesoft. Planned PeopleSoft upgrade path is PUM 49 and PS Tools 8.61.05.

July Release 2025 (07/11/2025):

  • Data Retention and Achieving – GL: Provide a data archiving solution focused on GL to reduce total storage costs associated with high volume records and address increasing RI data load times.
     
  • Improve Self-Service (Manager & Employee): 
    • Enhance user experience, reduce usability gaps.
    • Convert employee and manager self-service functionality to Fluid.
    • Deploy new benefit enrollment and online confirmation statement.
       
  • Salary Cost Transfer – Phase II:  Enhance the Custom SCT solution to be more user friendly and to complete the deferred requirements across restricted, unrestricted, work study and MCOP components from SCT Phase 1