Berkeley, Calif. — Employees of the University of California’s Office of the President will no longer be able to receive full severance checks and then be hired by one of the system’s campuses, the San Francisco Chronicle reported today.

The announcement followed a report in the newspaper last week about Linda Morris Williams, a former aide in the president’s office, who took a buyout this year as the office was being downsized. Ms. Williams was given a $100,202 severance package, only to be hired as an associate chancellor at the university’s Berkeley campus several months later.

News of the payment enraged several state lawmakers, who said the university was overpaying its top executives even as it raised tuition. Mark G. Yudof, the university’s president, said in a written statement that the policy had existed before he took office, in June, and that the university would limit such payments in the future.

“I and the regents recognize this may appear to the public as an objectionable use of resources even though the program is reducing our central administrative spending,” Mr. Yudof said, according to the newspaper.

The university faced a series of compensation scandals under its previous president, Robert C. Dynes. Ms. Williams, a former aide to Mr. Dynes, was one of the officials whose compensation raised questions during that period as well. —Josh Keller