in the event of inevitable swine-flu-holocaust (or snow)…

I guess this is a good thing?  But would we really ever close campus because of the flu?

One of the important functions of the Business Office is the preparation of all paychecks.

If an event occurred that required the campus to be closed, we would make our best efforts to ensure that faculty, staff, and students would get paid.  That event could be swine flu, snow conditions, or some other similar incident.  For those employees that are still be using paper time sheets at that time, the Business Office would try to use the prior month’s data if the current month’s information was not available.

However, if the campus is closed, we might find it impossible to generate and distribute paper checks.  Therefore I strongly recommend that every employee, faculty, staff, and student, enroll in direct deposit if missing one paycheck would be more than a minor inconvenience.

Obviously we hope that none of these events occur but prefer to be prepared.

Thank you.

George