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When an Employee Transfers to Another Department: Department Checklist  
 
Summary: Supervisors, use this checklist to determine the steps to take when an employee transfers to another department.

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Topic Details
Check with your department's HR contact. Discuss the following:
  • How will you fill the vacancy?
  • Is the employee willing to train a replacement?
Process the transfer through the Payroll Personnel System (PPS). Access the PPS online system to end the appointment:
  • End the appointment and distribution with last day on pay status (in current department).
  • Add new department's code as the alternate department until all transactions are complete.
  • On the PAN list of reviewers, add e-mail for HR contact for the new department.
  • Update timekeeping with any recent vacation or sick leave with the current department.
  • When all current department business is completed, change alternate department code to the new department's code, and delete current department code.
    Note: The new department will add new appointment and distribution, change Mail Code, phone extension and location, payroll title, Employee Relations code, and BELI code, if applicable.
  • Copy the employee personnel file. Send original to the new department, and keep a copy for your record.
Determine how to reuse or dispose of the employee's electronic files and communications. Discuss with the employee:
  • E-mail:
    • Which e-mail messages should be transferred or deleted?
    • Is an e-mail absence message required to:
      • Indicate the employee has left the department?
      • Redirect inquiries to the appropriate department contact?
    • Is setting up temporary network access to obtain copies of personal communications necessary?
  • Voice mail:
    • Reset password to the five-digit extension number.
    • Determine if a forwarding message is necessary.
  • Electronic files:
    • Determine which files should be transferred or deleted.
    • Provide the employee with an alternate area to transfer necessary files.
    • Instruct the employee to delete files.
Terminate the employee's access to UC electronic resources. After you have transferred or deleted the e-mail and network files:
  • Notify your department security administrator (DSA) to terminate access to any of the following:
    • Link family
    • PPS
    • Web IFIS
    • IFIS
    • ISIS
    • Data Warehouse
  • Notify your department's network administrator to terminate the employee's computer login to:
    • Local servers
    • Department dial-in service
    • E-mail service
    • Other local network operations and charges
Terminate all other UCSD services. Cancel or transfer access to the following, where applicable:
  • Cell phone service
  • Department and library copy cards: Contact Clarissa Bash, (858) 534-2534
  • Express Card (PDF)
  • Telecom services, including:
    • Authorization codes
    • Calling cards
    • Pagers
    • Radios
    • Telephones (land lines)
    • Voice mail
  • Ship To codes
  • Buyer code: Contact Kathy Meadows, (858) 534-3091.
  • Environment, Health & Safety privileges: Notify EH&S if the employee was authorized to work with regulated materials, including:
    • Biohazardous material
    • Radioactive material
    • Controlled substances
    • Lasers
    • Select Agents
    • Human gene transfer clinical trials

Update travel and entertainment information.
Make sure the employee returns any UC property that belongs to the department.
  • Verify that the employee returns these items:
    • Cell phones
    • Computers
    • Pagers
    • Radios
  • Confirm receipt of:
    • Calling cards on all indexes
    • Copy cards
    • Express card
    • Department keys or key cards
  • Check with your department's property administrator to ensure that the employee returned all UC equipment.
Update contact information. Remove the employee's name from following areas, where applicable:
  • Emergency contact list
  • Internal forms
  • Office security codes, access codes on keypads
  • Security alarm lists
  • Web pages and directories



Questions?
  • Payroll questions, contact a payroll representative.
  • Benefits questions, contact your benefits representative.
  • Employee relations questions, contact your employee relations specialist.
  • Labor relations questions, contact Labor Relations, (858) 534-2810.


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