State Group Life Insurance: Premium Change and Annual Coverage Update

New State Group Life Insurance premium rates and coverage levels change effective April 1, 2025, and will be reflected on your April 3, 2025, paycheck.

  • Premium Rates: Premium rates are increasing for most age categories. Premium rates for Spouse and Dependent coverage remain unchanged.
  • Coverage Level: Coverage levels will be updated.

How Your Premium Amount is Determined
Your State Group Life Insurance premium amount is based on these factors:

  • Premium rate
  • Your highest calendar year of eligible earnings
  • Your age as of April 1 each year
  • Your elected coverage level(s)

How to Estimate Your Updated State Group Life Insurance Premium
Employees currently enrolled in the State Group Life Insurance Program, and who want to estimate the change in premium, should:

  • Log on to my.wisconsin.edu and click on the Benefits and Well-Being tile.
  • Review your Benefit Enroll Confirmation to confirm your coverage level(s) (State Group Life-Basic, Supplemental, Additional, and Spouse & Dependent)
  • Visit the Benefits Premiums web page, select State Group Life Insurance from the list, and follow the instructions to calculate your estimated monthly premium.

The Universities of Wisconsin contributes towards the cost of your State Group Life Insurance Basic and Supplemental coverage. You pay the full cost of Additional and Spouse/Dependent coverage.

Questions
Review the State Group Life Insurance web page and Benefits Premiums web page for more information. If you have questions after reviewing the web pages, reach out to your benefits contact.

Source: Universities of Wisconsin Office of Human Resources

April Issue: Employee Engagement Newsletter

Check out the April issue of our Employee Engagement Newsletter! This newsletter focuses, specifically, on employee engagement at the university with new ideas and reminders on how you can incorporate opportunities within your departments/teams. Each issue will feature an Employee Spotlight section as well. If you are interested in being featured in the newsletter, please reach out to hr@uwgb.edu.

If you missed any of the last issues, check them out here:

October Employee Engagement Newsletter
November Employee Engagement Newsletter
December Employee Engagement Newsletter
January Employee Engagement Newsletter
February Employee Engagement Newsletter
March Employee Engagement Newsletter

University Union Custodian

The University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay welcomes your application for consideration for a 1st shift Custodian position. In this important role, you will make an impact on our students, faculty and staff by maintaining the overall appearance and cleanliness of the University Union. This includes but is not limited to cleaning offices, restrooms, meeting rooms, and other building areas; maintaining all floor surfaces including mopping, buffing, vacuuming, shampooing, and refinishing; cleaning windows (inside and outside); cleaning furniture; assisting with furniture, piano and equipment moves as required; stocking restrooms and custodial work areas with necessary supplies and products; waste and recycling removal; snow removal and salting of building entrances. Another aspect of this position is monitoring building security and safety by locking doors after operating hours. This position will be required to drive a State vehicle and travel between work on-campus locations as needed.

For more information and full position responsibilities, please see the full position announcement.

To ensure consideration, please submit application materials by Sunday, April 20, 2025

Retail Operations Manager

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay welcomes your application for the Retail Operations Manager. Reporting to the Phoenix Store Manager, this position provides direct support for both the Phoenix Store operations and oversees all aspects of the Phoenix Club food service operations. This position will also provide back-up support for on-campus events.

For more information and full position responsibilities, please see the full position announcement.

To ensure consideration, please submit application materials by Sunday, April 20, 2025.

2024 Outside Activities Reports (OARs) – Access for online completion begins April 1, 2025

Each year, all faculty, academic staff, and limited appointees with appointments of half-­time or more are responsible for reporting Outside Activities (according to Board of Regent and UW System guidelines, UWS Chapter 8.025, and the Wisconsin Administrative Code).

Additionally, we ask University Staff to read the Code of Conduct (RPD 20-22) and all employees to read the policy on Employee Relationships with Educational Loan Lenders RPD 13-4.

Similar to past years, requests and notices will come to employees from UW-Shared Services (serviceoperations@uwss.wisconsin.edu), and eligible employees will submit their OAR form online through their My UW Portal.

On April 1, all employees required to submit an Outside Activity Report (OAR) will receive a message from UW System with instructions to complete the OAR. The OAR will need to be completed by the employee and approved by the supervisor. Following the initial notice, employees will receive reminders throughout the month.

Please see below for additional information:

For more information about OARs (including helpful videos), please see the UW System Conflicts of Interest and Outside Activities website.

The Code of Conduct and Employee Relationships with Educational Loan Lenders policies will also be delivered to your mailboxes from uwsytemhr@uwss.wisconsin.edu during the month of April with a reminder to familiarize yourself with these policies.

If you have questions while using the process or need technical support, please contact serviceoperations@uwss.wisconsin.edu.

Resources relevant to this message include:

Bellin Run 2025

It’s time to register for the 49th Annual Bellin Run! The Bellin Run will be an in-person and virtual event on Saturday June 14, 2025, in Green Bay. This 10K & 5K event is for runners and walkers of all participation levels.

UW-Green Bay is part of the Bellin Run Corporate Challenge. Being part of this program gets your race packet (bib and race shirt) will be delivered to the Green Bay campus and available for you to pick up in the Human Resources office about a week before the event (we will email you when it’s ready) if you register by May 15th:

Friends and family can be registered on our team so that they can receive these benefits as well.

    1. Visit this link to register:https://raceroster.com/registration/0bcb2ec5-a0d6-4017-8065-9f77fa1d2989/entry?team=791684
      2. Enter Team Code: UWGB2025
      3. Complete the form for yourself, the team will be automatically selected. If you are registering other friends or family members, click on “add another registrant” and then choose “Corporate Challenge Team Member”.
      4. Proceed to check out
      5. Complete registration by clicking “submit order”

Check out the helpful training information online such as tips, videos, training plans, free training runs and walks, etc. at https://www.bellinrun.com/training

Please email wellness@uwgb.edu if you have any questions.

HRS Extended Outage from 4:00 pm Friday, March 14 through 12:00 pm Sunday, March 16

Employees will not have access to online timesheets, earnings statements, and other related documents and services during a UW Human Resources System (HRS) outage from approximately 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 14 through 12:00 p.m. Sunday, March 16. The outage is due to HRS System maintenance.

The following self-service features that employees access through the MyUW portal will be unavailable during this outage:

    • Online timesheet
    • Absence reporting
    • Benefits Self Service
    • Updates to personal information
    • Access to electronic earnings statements, tax statements (W-2, 1042-S, etc.), leave statements and other HR, Payroll and Benefits documents
    • Access to TAM job application service
    • EPM Data Warehouse
    • Security Requests for HRS/EPM

During this time, applicants will be unable to access the online applicant management system to apply for positions. Please contact jobs@uwgb.edu with any questions regarding this outage for applicants. All other questions can be directed to hr@uwgb.edu.