Expanded Paid Sick Leave

TO:  UC Santa Barbara Staff Colleagues

FR:   Ann-Marie Musto, Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Human Resources Officer and Leesa Beck
        Assistant Vice Chancellor, Academic Personnel 

RE:  Expanded Paid Sick Leave

Dear colleagues:

To help UCSB’s staff and academic employees prepare for the upcoming expansion of paid sick leave (effective Jan. 1, 2025), UCOP has published an informational article and page with frequently asked questions on UCnet: 

• Learn more about expanded paid sick leave, effective Jan. 1, 2025

• Expansion of paid sick leave

In addition, the implementation team will be hosting a webinar geared toward Kronos approvers, department timekeepers, and payroll managers. This webinar will cover how we plan to implement the change in the UCPath System and will not go into depth regarding the policy and eligibility. The webinar will be held on December 11th, 2024 at 10:00 am PST. The invitation will be sent via email.

Note that because the new policies expand sick leave for some populations that do not report time in Kronos (e.g. faculty), and will therefore need to enter sick leave taken directly into UCPath, we strongly recommend that all departments send at least one representative to this webinar.

To ensure members of our campus community are informed about this significant change, we ask that you please share these resources broadly.

Please direct follow-up policy and eligibility questions to:

Academic employees: ap-inquiry@ucsb.edu for policy questions, AP-Path@ucsb.edu for UCPath questions
Staff and student employees: HR ServiceNow > Leave Administration>Other Leave Questions