The Pay for Family Care and Bonding (PFCB) program introduced in July 2021 is expanding (opens in new window). In 2023, the income replacement offered by PFCB will increase from 70% to 100% of eligible earnings. The increase is effective Jan. 1, 2023, for employees paid on a monthly basis and December 25, 2022, for employees paid on a biweekly basis and is available for up to eight workweeks per calendar year.
Required changes to support the expanded program in HBS are underway and are expected to be delivered in January 2023. Expected changes on HBS timesheets are as follows:
- Some timesheets will continue to show a 70/30 split for PFCB
- Not all collective bargaining units have accepted the new PFCB program.
- To confirm whether a bargaining unit is participating in the program, refer to the applicable unit’s collective bargaining agreement (opens in new window) or UCSF HR announcement (opens in new window). Programming in HBS will be expanded to include other bargaining units as they opt into the program.
- Biweekly Timesheets
- PFCB pay codes will be selected in full-day increments based on the employee’s standard work schedule.
- If an employee is in a bargaining unit that has not opted into the 100% pay program: HBS will calculate a split of the reported hours to display 70% PFCB paid hours and 30% leave without pay for employees.
- If an employee is in a bargaining unit that has opted into the 100% pay program: HBS reported hours will display 100% PFCB paid hours for employees.
- HBS will send the PFCB paid and unpaid hours to UCPath for payroll processing.
The HBS pay codes and Salary Expense Reimbursement process developed for the 2021 PFCB release will not change.
Delivery of these changes is dependent on development and testing execution with the UCPath Center. Until programming changes are available, employees and timesheet approvers should continue to follow the existing process, and Payroll will manually enter PFCB earnings so that they are correctly interfaced to UCPath at 100% for eligible employees.