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href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/employee-orientation\/\">Employee Orientation<\/a><\/li><li class=\"breadcrumb-item active\" aria-current=\"page\">Authorization to Work<\/li><\/ol><\/nav>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6d1f48c3f08d9ae6cc37ae0e1395d388\" id=\"h.1drm9n6sq95b\">Authorization to Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After completing the required steps in the employment process and upon review of the background check, the student\/non-student temp will receive an email from HR with authorization to work. This email will include next steps in the on-boarding process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These next steps include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/csprod.dsc.umich.edu\/htmldoc\/eng\/dftie\/lsaa\/htm\/hr_ss_newhireinfo.html&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1771683337516987&amp;usg=AOvVaw223nZqEWzoBg5WgYKyb91d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Employee Validation Process &#8211;<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;New hires and rehires will use the&nbsp;<strong>New Employee Validation&nbsp;<\/strong>page in Wolverine Access to enter or validate their personal data before it is loaded into the official University of Michigan system (M-Pathways). A link to the New Employee Validation page will be in the email sent from HR.The system will allow the new hire to complete the employee validation process&nbsp;<strong>24 hours after<\/strong>&nbsp;the authorization email is received. For payroll processing purposes, the validation process must be completed within 3 days.<strong>&nbsp;The employee validation process is a required action<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/csprod.dsc.umich.edu\/htmldoc\/eng\/dftie\/lsaa\/htm\/py_ss_directdeposit.html&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1771683337518882&amp;usg=AOvVaw10PxHDRjTkM4GA88TZhOwX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Direct Deposit &#8211;<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;Direct Deposit can be set up by going to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wolverineaccess.umich.edu\/&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1771683337519174&amp;usg=AOvVaw2AV48Wukgj8bPcsm_eZr_7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wolverine Access<\/a>, Clicking the Employee Self Service tile, and then clicking the Payroll and Compensation tile. On the left hand side bar,&nbsp;employees can set up the direct deposit of net pay into a financial account. It is strongly recommended to set up direct deposit. If direct deposit is not set up a paper check will be mailed to the address on file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/csprod.dsc.umich.edu\/htmldoc\/eng\/dftie\/lsaa\/htm\/py_ss_updatefederalw4.html&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1771683337520106&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ABE35wUrcGEpaRpwvMyme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal W-4 Tax Documentation<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;most student\/non-student temp employees can change their Federal tax withholding information using the Wolverine Access website. Non-U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident CANNOT change tax withholding information using the Wolverine Access website, this must be completed via a paper form. Please see the HR office for more information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/csprod.dsc.umich.edu\/htmldoc\/eng\/dftie\/lsaa\/htm\/py_ss_updatemichiganw4.html&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1771683337520825&amp;usg=AOvVaw3y_F7M2-o-gN3a-pWD2E1x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michigan W-4 Tax \u2013<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>most student\/non-student temp employees can change their Federal\/State tax withholding information using the Wolverine Access website. Non-U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident CANNOT change tax withholding information using the Wolverine Access website. Please see the HR office for more information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>City of Flint Tax &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;The City of Flint has a separate income tax rate and requires an additional tax return to be completed. The income tax rate for the City of Flint is 1% for residents and 1\/2% for non-residents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vTgCU99Twhevil62B4u3Rci8eiW__bP7R8dHrhgaF3h_V8GSZh9MIaJ--rbTO1reEqYqAGmrC1_1bCo\/pub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Print only Authorization to Work<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/employee-orientation\/authorization\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/human-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}