Compensation System Initiative for Professional Staff Jobs
CSI Project

The University plans to roll out the new compensation program for Professional Staff during the Fall. The program is the result of a full review of the Professional Staff compensation system components, including methodology for job classification and guidelines to assist managers in making salary decisions. With the help of schools and departments, more than 5,500 Professional Staff positions have been classified into broad levels and salary ranges. Jobs are organized based on job family and level of work. Each job family correlates with a discipline, occupational category, or functional area that defines the type of work. The level of the work is based on complexity, scope of impact, autonomy, and knowledge required. Salary ranges are designed to be competitive with the labor market for the respective job family and level. Professional Staff will receive a personalized statement that provides the job family and level for his/her position in late August.

Foremost, this new compensation system is intended to provide department heads with objective, market-based information for their salary decisions.

Visit www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/salary/comp/ for the latest information, including job families, level guides, salary structures and ranges.

New policy
Whistleblower Policy

Indiana University has a responsibility to conduct its affairs ethically and in compliance with the law and university policy. Likewise, the university has a responsibility to protect those who make a good faith effort to “blow the whistle” on suspected wrongful conduct. IU employees already enjoy whistleblower protection under Indiana Code 20-12-1-8. The new Whistleblower Policy approved by the university’s president on April 16, 2007, encourages an atmosphere that allows employees to meet their obligations to disclose violations of law and serious breaches of conduct without adverse academic or employment action. The Whistleblower Policy also lists existing policies and procedures to refer to when making disclosures and who to contact when disclosing wrongful conduct or seeking relief from retaliatory action.

Wrongful Conduct is:

• a violation of applicable state and/or federal laws and regulations
• a serious violation of University policy
• the use of University property, resources, or authority for personal gain or other non University-related purpose except as provided under University policy

A Good Faith Report is an allegation made by an individual who believes that Wrongful Conduct may have occurred. However, an allegation is not in Good Faith if it is made with reckless disregard for or willful ignorance of facts that would disprove the allegation.

See the full policy at www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/policies/uwide/whistleblower.htm.

Related laws and policies:

Indiana Code 20-12-1-8
IU Policy on Research Integrity
IU Financial Management Services Policy on Fiscal Misconduct (I-30)
IU Financial Management Services Policy on Fraud (I-35)
IU Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Commitment policies

Benefits Self Service Reminder

Benefits Self Service is available to all benefits-eligible employees across Indiana University. This service enables employees to review their benefit elections and initiate certain changes, including the following:

• Review a one-page summary of all benefit elections as of a given date and review individual plan pages
• Change dependent and beneficiary information, including changing or adding new beneficiaries for Basic Life, Supplemental Life, and Personal Accident Insurance
• Change percent contribution levels for the IU Tax Deferred Annuity Plan (403(b) plan) and IU Retirement Savings Plan (457(b) plan)
• Change investment companies for the following: IU Retirement Plan, IU TDA, IU Retirement Savings Plan, IUSERP

Examples

If a participant has experienced a marriage, divorce, birth of a child, or death of a beneficiary, the participant should review the beneficiary designations for his or her benefit plans. A participant does not need to experience a life-altering event to make this change. A participant may change the beneficiary at any time.

Employees receiving a salary increase may want to use self service to increase their contribution levels for the IU TDA Plan and/or the IU Retirement Savings Plan.

To access Benefits Self Service

1. Log in to OneStart at onestart.iu.edu/my-prd/Portal.do.
2. Using the Staff or Faculty Tools tab, find the Benefits Self Service option listed in the Employee Self Service channel under the Benefits header.
3. Click on Benefits Self Service.

When working in OneStart, especially on a public computer, always remember to log out.

OneStart V2.0 to be Released this Fall

OneStart will have its first major overhaul in late September. The goals of this release are to increase the ease of navigating and using the portal. OneStart services will remain roughly the same, but will be relocated throughout the portal. Communications and messages will be embedded in OneStart v2.0 to help users navigate to the services they are used to accessing (My Finances, Human Resources, Employee Self Service) and to make the transition as smooth as possible. In addition to the navigational changes, there will be new underlying technology in OneStart providing for much better dynamic content delivery in the months and years to come.