Purpose

To provide guidelines and processing procedures for Cash Payments.

Affected Employees

Doctoral students in Bargaining Unit 28

Effective Date

Administration pay period 3L, checks Dated May 22,2002

Contract Provisions and Eligibility Criteria

Article 5.13 of the 1999-2003 Agreement between the State and the Graduate Student Employees Union (GSEU) authorizes cash payments to new and existing doctoral student employees who were active in BU-28 at any time during the 2001-2002 academic year (8/16/01-6/5/02).

Eligible employees at campuses with doctoral programs may receive payment based at the discretion of the Dean of the Graduate Student Department.

Eligible Campuses with doctoral programs are:

• 28019 University at Albany
• 28029 University at Binghamton
• 28039 University at Buffalo
• 28059 SUNY at Stony Brook
• 28109 Health Science Center at Brooklyn
• 28119 Health Science Center at Syracuse
• 28559 Environmental Science and Forestry
• 28589 College of Optometry

Agency Processing Procedures

Each campus will be required to provide a Doctoral Cash Payment roster, in Empl. ID order, to SUNY Systems Administration.The payments will be made through the Time Entry Panel as follows:

For non-resident aliens, one of the following Earning Codes should be used:

*If not active in BU 28 on 4/25/02, enter the last day the employee was active in BU 28.

Payroll Register and Employee's Paycheck/Advice

The earnings code DCP will be displayed on the payroll register. The earnings description SUNY Doctoral Cash Payment (SUNY Doctoral Cash Pymt IC 17, IC 18, IC 19) will be printed on the employee's pay stub or advice.

Questions

Questions about these payments may be directed to SUNY Systems Administration.

Payroll related questions should be directed to your OSC payroll auditor.