OSPS publishes a monthly newsletter highlighting various tips & tricks for working in OSPA, as well as selected highlights from the past month's e-news broadcasts.

The staff of Oregon Statewide Payroll Services (OSPS) is committed to ongoing training for new and existing agency payroll staff.

OSPS offers formal training in a classroom setting on various topics each month. We post classroom material to our website after each training.

We also offer quarterly OSPS Payroll User Forums on timely issues, training on new procedures, or topics suggested by our customer base.

The OSPS Processing Calendar contains the full range of available training dates.

For assistance processing a deceased employee check click on the link below to view our Deceased Employees Recommended Practice.

Jane Doe works part-time and is classified as a .60 FTE. She normally has some out-of-pocket premiums for insurance because contribution and subsidy is pro-rated for part-time employees. The more hours Jane works, the more employer contribution and/or subsidy she qualifies to receive.

On April 23rd after working 80 hours out of an expected 84 hours for the month, Jane goes
out on FMLA.

Does Jane qualify to have the additional four hours she was expected to work factored in to the employer contribution/subsidy for April?

"Help! I need to find..." The OSPS Help Desk gets many questions like this via phone, fax, and e-mail.

In the interest of good customer service, we are providing you a list of places to begin researching the answer to your non-OSPA-related questions.

Here is a partial list. Please feel free to suggest others.