Welcome to the UCPath Projects page, where you can stay informed about all current and completed UCPath Projects led by the Berkeley UCPath Operations Team.
Ongoing Projects
Check out the high-level summary of our current ongoing projects.
Annual UCPath Upgrade
Improve Accrual Management Phase 2
About: Phase 2 of the Improve Accrual Management project will introduce additional segmentation functionality to the accrual module, specific to employees on short work break. This will also introduce some enhancements to the E-052 (Admin - Review Absence Balance) page.
Simplify GL Phase 2
About: The Rewrite GL Assessment project will ultimately retire three custom GL tables, and to modify a delivered GL table to include values from those retiring tables.
Additionally, this will introduce some changes to the Salary Cost Transfer functionality:
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A change in how assessments are redistributed in a Salary Cost Transfer
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Batch processing for Salary Cost Transfers to move to a nightly cadence (from three times a month).
Completed Projects
Check out the high-level summary of our completed projects.
Completed Projects: 2026 Archive
Final Pay Pilot Phase 1 (2nd attempt)
About: The Final Pay Pilot introduces a new streamlined way to submit final pay, automating much of the calculations, increasing accuracy, and shortening final pay turnaround. This second (successful) attempt was completed in March 2026.
Improve Accrual Management Phase 1
About: This project introduced segmentation functionality in the accruals module of UCPath to allow for more accurate calculations of employee accruals when there is a mid-pay period change to their job.
Improve Final Pay (Final Pay Pilot Phase 2)
About: Phase 2 of the Final Pay project will focus on resolving some defects, and implementing some change requests, identified in Phase 1.
Accessibility Compliance
About: This project is designed to update UCPath Training Materials and outdated functionality with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standards, in accordance with the UC IT Accessibility Policy
Included in this project is the migration of job aids and training resources from the User Productivity Kit (UPK) Help Site to ‘Ask UCPath’ Salesforce Knowledge articles.
Interested in learning more about our Berkeley UCPath Operations team’s approach to accessibility? Read our Accessibility Statement for UC Berkeley UCPath Training
Completed Projects: 2025 Archive
Annual UCPath Upgrade
Benefits Election Events & Confirmation Statements
Expanded Paid Sick Leave Phase I
About: Expanded paid sick leave to employees with FTE less than 0.5, and to Per Diem employees.
Final Pay Pilot Phase 1 (1st attempt)
About: The Final Pay Pilot introduces a new streamlined way to submit final pay, automating much of the calculations, increasing accuracy, and shortening final pay turnaround. This 1st attempt went through the full round of testing, and it was determined to not be ready for release. The second (successful) attempt was completed in March 2026.
Salary Cost Transfer Phase 2
About: Phase 2 of the Salary Cost Transfer project focused on resolving some defects, and implementing some change requests, identified in Phase 1. Some key enhancements in this phase included the introduction of FAU/chartstring copy/paste functionality.
Benefit Cost Transfer Upgrade
About: Replaced the Process Benefit Cost Transfer and Review Benefit Cost Transfer pages to more closely mirror the functionality of the Salary Cost Transfer pages.
Improved Employee & Manager Self Service
About: This project replaced the self-service pages for employees and managers in UCPath, and integrated the self-service pages with the transaction pages for users with elevated access in UCPath.
Learn more about the Improve UCPath Self-Service Project
Expanded Paid Sick Leave Phase 2
About: Implemented sick banks for academic employees per the new Expansion of Paid Sick Leave policy.
Direct Retro Retirement
About: Retired the Direct Retro tool, which was replaced by Salary Cost Transfers. The Review DR Transactions page is still available to review historical Direct Retro transactions.
Simplified GL Phase 1
About: The Rewrite GL Assessment project will ultimately retire three custom GL tables, and to modify a delivered GL table to include values from those retiring tables. Phase 1 started the change in table structures, but did not result in any changes to the Production environment.
Completed Projects: 2024 Archive
Annual UCPath Upgrade
Replace PayPath Phase 2 (Manage Job Pilot)
About: Phase 2 added additional Actions/Reasons to the Manage Job functionality. Note: This is a pilot, and Manage Job functionality has not been widely distributed to the campus.
Rewrite GL Assessments Phase 1
About: Assessments were previously calculated as a part of each payroll run and each Salary Cost Transfer or Direct Retro batch processing. The Rewrite GL Assessments project will separate the assessment functionality into an independent process that is run 1-2 times per a month. Phase 1 of this project focused on systemwide assessments.
Rewrite GL Assessments Phase 2
About: Assessments were previously calculated as a part of each payroll run and each Salary Cost Transfer or Direct Retro batch processing. The Rewrite GL Assessments project will separate the assessment functionality into an independent process that is run 1-2 times per a month. Phase 2 focused on local assessments.
TAM Fluid (Updated User Experience/UX)
About: This project moved TAM to Oracle’s new “Fluid” design for recruitment teams and applicants. This also removed a security customization, providing additional flexibility for how applicant and recruitment details are managed.
Gender Identity & Pronouns
About: This project implemented implemented the following:
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Pronouns are now tracked in UCPath, and employees have the ability to select their preferred pronouns to align with their identity.
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Updated Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity values to conform with the Gender Recognition and Lived Name Policy.
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Display of employee pronoun information where possible in UCPath, including:
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UCPath Transactors
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Employee Self-Service
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Manager Self-Service
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Reports
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Downstream Systems
Check out our Pronouns FAQs for more information.
Learn more about the Gender Identity & Pronouns Project
Business Phones in People Cards
About: This implemented an interface between People Cards and UCPath to allow updates to an employee’s Business Phone in People Cards to update in UCPath. This update ensures compliance with Government Code 3558 and enhances data accuracy and organizational communication.
Direct Entry (Manage Human Resources Pilot)
About: Implemented fluid Manage HR functionality, used to create new Employee or Person IDs, hire employees into new Empl Records, and add contingent workers on new Empl Records. This project is connected with the Replace PayPath Phase 1 (Manage Job Pilot)
Note: This is a pilot, and Manage HR functionality has not been widely distributed to most UCPath WFA users yet.
Automate Security Deprovisioning
About: This project automated the deprovisioning of elevated UCPath access where an employee transfers from one UC location to another, or when an employee with jobs at multiple locations terminates from one of those locations.
Reproductive Loss Leave
About: This project implemented a new leave type in Extended Absence for Reproductive Loss Leave.
Experian ID Theft Protection
About: Effective April 1, 2024, UC implemented a fully employer-paid Experian Identity Theft Protection benefit with automatic enrollment for all employees and dependents under 18.
This plan appears on your benefit summary as Identity Theft Protection and will show as eligible.
Former Employee Portal
About: This project implemented a secure authentication solution for former employees to access payroll and tax information in PeopleSoft after their active network accounts were closed.
Learn more about the Former Employee Portal
New UCPath Case Submission Process
About: Implemented on May 6, 2024, this project streamlined the AskUCPath case submission process to improve accessibility for employees without "Service on Behalf of" (SOBO) access.
Watch a brief video on the new case submission process.
New SOBO Case Submission Form
About: As part of the Enhance Ask UCPath Initiative, this project implemented a standardized and intuitive "Submit on Behalf Of" (SOBO) form to streamline the case management process for transactors.
Completed Projects: 2023 Archive
Annual UCPath Upgrade
Replace PayPath Phase 1 (Manage Job Pilot)
About: Implemented fluid Manage Job functionality for many Job Data only employee updates. Manage Job is expected to be the successor page to PayPath. Once functionality has been fully developed to support all Job Data Action and Reason codes, the functionality will be rolled out to campus users.
Note: This is a pilot, and Manage Job functionality has not been widely distributed to the campus.
Salary Cost Transfer Phase 1
About: Replaced the Direct Retro pages with the new Salary Cost Transfer pages. Notable, this replaced the ‘MCOP worksheets’, with MCOP functionality on the main Salary Cost Transfer page.
Completed Projects: 2022 Archive
Common Chart of Accounts
About: Aligned our FAU/chartstring display in UCPath to align with systemwide ordering.
Improved (Fluid) Navigation
About: Replaced the Navigator file/menu structure with homepage, tile, and folder navigation.