According to the UT Handbook of Business Procedures, Section 7.7.2 prohibits us from purchasing services from current employees or relatives of an employee. This applies to any full-time employees, part-time employees and students employees. If an individual is paid through UT Payroll, we cannot contract with him/her. The process below must be completed before services start.
If a Domain seeks to contract with current UT full-time employees, we are required to process Additional Duties Pay for this individual through HR. For current full-time employees, the process entails the Domains to:
- Work with vendor to obtain approval from the home department of the employee
- Send the request to DellMedFinance@austin.utexas.edu to ensure all procurement authorizations and approvals are in place
- Dell Med Finance will give the green light and forward the request to Dell Med HR
- Send the following information to Dell Med HR DellMedHR@austin.utexas.edu
- Name and EID of employee
- Effective start and end date
- Payment amount (this is in the form of a lump sum, but it can be calculated based on the estimated number of hours expected - please note this amount has to be a lump sum and not hourly!)
- Account number
- A short justification for the request
- A short description of the work and/or services being provided
- HR Contact of the employee’s home department
- Dell Med HR will complete the Additional Duties Request Form and send it over to the HR Contact of the employee’s home department
- Employee’s home department will have to sign and approve the arrangement, as well as, key in the additional duties increase once everything is final approved
- Dell Med HR will notify Domain the increase is activated
- Payment is automatic through UT Payroll when the engagement was set to end
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For part-time or student employees, the process entails the Domain to:
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