Statement from Bob Lavigna on HR Design

In the 2011-13 state budget, UW–Madison and the UW System were granted the authority to create human resources systems separate from the state personnel system. These new HR systems were to be implemented beginning on July 1, 2013. At UW–Madison, the initiative to create our new HR system is the HR Design project.

On May 23, the legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance amended the governor’s 2013-15 biennial budget bill to delay the effective date of the components of HR Design that require statutory changes until July 1, 2015.  The budget is expected to be finalized later this month.

We are analyzing the implications of this delay, including the specific areas of our plan that will be delayed, and what we are able to move ahead with in the interim. Given our need to evaluate these impacts, we will reschedule the HR Design information sessions we have planned for June until later in the summer.

We will also continue to update the campus with information on HR Design, including the dates for the forums, at the project’s Web site, www.hrdesign.wisc.edu.

Thank you to all who have worked on, and provided input to, the HR Design project. We will use this delay as an opportunity to further refine and enhance our approach and will continue our strategy of broad campus engagement as we move forward.

If you have questions about the project, please send them to hrdesign@news.wisc.edu. 

Thank you,

Bob Lavigna, Director of Human Resources, UW–Madison