Human Resources 

... including Benefits and Payroll

 

The Research Foundation Human Resources division is committed to providing resources to our faculty, supervisors and department heads from hiring personnel working on extramurallly funded awards to processing appointments, maintaining personnel files and overseeing leave records.

Human Resources manages the full range of employment services available at the Research Foundation, including recruitment, new employee orientation, benefits, compensation, employee relations and staff development. They provide strategic support and guidance for current and prospective employees as well as retirees.

The team advises supervisors and department heads, counsel employees and provide them with information about benefits programs offered by Downstate through the Research Foundation. These initiatives include health insurance, life insurance, retirement, tax-deferred programs, long-term disability plans; and short-term disability, workers compensation, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.

The Human Resources team manages the full range of employment programs available at the Research Foundation, including recruitment, benefits, compensation, employee relations and staff development. They provide strategic support and effective guidance for both current and prospective employees as well as retirees.

The Benefits team assists faculty, staff, graduate students and postdocs in understanding their benefit programs, as well as providing new employee orientation. 

The Payroll team performs tasks to establish and maintain employee/payroll records. They are responsible for processing all employee wages and stipends, withholding all appropriate taxes on wages, deducting benefits and other authorized items from employee wages. This team also processes IFR transactions on sponsored awards and collaborates with the researcher to meet compliance for effort reporting.