SUPERVISOR NEWSLETTER
November 2015
 Take Action
Annual Notification of Policies, and the Fraud and Conduct Training was recently sent
out to all benefitted faculty and staff with a deadline of December 31, 2015. Please
encourage your employees to complete this training as soon as possible. We all know
how easy it is to put it off, then forget to follow-up.
 Reminders
New Employee Orientation
Please be sure to have your new employees register through Learning and Development for
New Employee Orientation. This will ensure that enough materials are prepared for those in
attendance. The registration website is: https://register.und.edu/learning/jsp/index.jsp
Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides eligible employees (faculty and
staff) up to 12 workweeks of leave protection in a 12 month period, and requires group
health benefits to be maintained during the leave. Employees are also entitled to return
to their same or an equivalent job at the end of their FMLA leave.
Eligible employees (must have been employed for one full year and have worked 1250
hours in the previous 12 month period) will be granted FMLA for one or more of the
following reasons:
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for the birth of a son or daughter, and to bond with the newborn child;
for the placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster care, and to
bond with that child;
to care for an immediate family member (spouse, child, or parent – but not a parent
“in-law”) with a serious health condition;
to take medical leave when the employee is unable to work because of a serious
health condition; or
for qualifying exigencies arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, son,
daughter, or parent is on covered active duty or call to covered active duty status as
a member of the National Guard, Reserves, or Regular Armed Forces.
The FMLA also allows eligible employees to take up to 26 workweeks of unpaid, jobprotected leave in a “single 12-month period” to care for a covered service member
with a serious injury or illness.
The FMLA Certification Workflow Process can be found on HR’s website >>>>>.
Trainings and workshops are periodically offered through Learning and Development as
well as by individual request to Human Resources UND.humanresources@und.edu or by
calling 777-4361.
 In the News
Overtime Eligibility Proposed Changes
The Department of Labor (DOL) issued proposed regulations which, if adopted, will
dramatically increase the number of executive, administrative and professional (white
collar) workers eligible to earn overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards
Act (FLSA). The proposed rulemaking will more than double the salary-basis
requirement for the white-collar exemptions to the FLSA’s minimum-wage and overtime
requirements. While it is proposed legislation at this point, there is a national
understanding that the legislation will be successful and that campuses should be
preparing for it. These changes may impact your budget for 2016-2017
So what does this mean for you as a supervisor?
Under the proposed rule, the minimum salary for exemption status will move from $455
per week ($23,660 annually) to a projected level of $970 per week ($50,440 annually) in
2016. If you currently have exempt employees being paid an annual salary less than
$50,440, they will be eligible for overtime and their hours must be tracked and
monitored.