In this December 2023 issue:
The Finance Office is preparing to calculate UNK's Unrelated Business Income Tax for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. If your department has had any income from a trade or business (the production of income from the sale of goods or the performance of a service) which is regularly carried on and which is NOT substantially related to the performance of the institution's tax exempt purpose of Education, you may be generating Unrelated Business Income.
Areas of potential exposure include:
Facility Rentals
Merchandise Sales
Catering and Food Service
Advertising Income
Sponsorships
Camps (not sponsored by UNK)
Sales of Services to others outside UNK
Concession Income
Broadcast Rights
UNK's areas of UBIT exposure are being reported to the IRS along with the other University of Nebraska campuses. No actual taxes are assessed to your department's cost object.
Please respond to Debbie Tvrdy in the Finance Office if you think that you may have an area of exposure within your department's activities. Each potential exposure area will be analyzed separately.
Jane Sheldon, Associate Vice Chancellor, Business and Finance, is the liaison for UNK to the University of Nebraska Foundation. If you have any questions regarding your department foundation funds, please contact Jane Sheldon, 8427, sheldonj@unk.edu.
The December Holiday closedown for 2023 begins on Friday, December 22nd and concludes on Monday, January 1st. Staff will return to work on Tuesday, January 2nd.
Paid holidays will be December 25th and January 1st. For staff who have been employed for the entire calendar year, you will need to use your 5 accrued floating holidays. All leave-eligible employees should submit their leave requests through Firefly by submitting two separate leave requests: one for December 22nd and one for December 26-29th. If you have questions or you do not have enough leave time to cover this time period, please contact Human Resources at 865-8184.
Additionally, managers who will have staff working during the period of December 22nd – January 1st should notify Human Resources of this detail.
As a reminder, Nebraska minimum wage will increase to $12.00/hour effective January 1, 2024. Below is a link to the Nebraska Department of Labor minimum wage poster, which identifies the minimum wage increase schedule through January 1, 2026:
https://dot.nebraska.gov/media/biufxqxi/nebraska-minimum-wage-poster.pdf
The University of Nebraska system allows all employees to opt to receive their W-2 through Employee Self Service (Firefly). Please consider opting for the electronic version to save paper and distribution time. Those who choose to receive an electronic W-2 through Firefly will receive their W-2 statement about a week earlier than those who receive paper W-2 forms. Only employees who elect an electronic W-2 will be able to view their W-2 form throughout the year. To enroll, log into Firefly>Employee Self Service>W-2 Form>Enroll for W-2 Online Delivery. Please contact Human Resources at 865-8184 with any questions.
This is also a good time to review your address listed in Employee Self Service (About Me - Personal Information>Address & Emergency Contact) to confirm that your contact information is current. The address listed in an employee’s “permanent address” is where all benefit and payroll related information is sent, so it is important that the information is correct.
Please consider donating to the crisis leave program. This program allows any employee who earns vacation leave to donate up to five accumulated vacation days per calendar year. The donated leave goes to a pool of crisis leave hours that are used to help an employee who is experiencing a crisis and does not have sufficient leave to cover their absence period. Donation forms can be accessed through SAPPHIRE or the following link:
https://sapphire.bravais.com/document/1730
Please submit completed forms to the Human Resources Office.
During an emergency or severe weather event which disrupts or has the potential to disrupt campus operations and services on the UNK campus, the emergency operation plan will be activated. An important part of this plan is to alert students, faculty, and staff of the emergency and to list any precautionary steps to take.
UNKAlert will send emergency messages from UNK to devices and addresses you designate. Communication devices can be cell phones (text and voice), landline phones, and e-mail addresses. Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses for UNKAlert will be maintained by SAP for employees and MyBLUE for students. Receiving a text from UNKAlert is not automatic; you must click on the text option in SAP. To receive emergency messages from UNKAlert, it is critical that your telephone numbers, text options, and e-mail addresses are kept up to date in SAP & MyBLUE.
For information regarding UNKAlert please visit, http://www.unk.edu/offices/emergency_management/index.php
Or contact:
Ted Eichholz
Assistant Director – UNK Police
308-865-8923 - office
eichholzth@unk.edu
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Employees and Departments/Groups of Employees can be nominated for different awards. The awards are presented monthly during the Staff Senate meetings.
Please consider nominating a staff member or group who has demonstrated excellence. It’s time to show our colleagues how much we appreciate what they do and why we’re so very proud to be Lopers!!