Benefits for Members of Local 95
Members of the are covered under their own contract, which specifies their benefits coverage options. Local 95 employees may also cover their eligible dependents under their health coverage.
Enrolling in Benefits
You must enroll in your benefits within 30 days of your hire. The selections you make when you are hired will begin on the first day of the month following your hire date and will continue through June 30.
Your benefit elections may not be changed during the contract year, unless you experience a qualified life or family status event. Depending on the status change, you can change your level of coverage or opt out.
You can also change your elections during the annual Open Enrollment period in June.
Benefit Plans
Medical and Prescription:
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A full range of health care services, usually at little/no charge beyond the monthly premium. Includes prescription coverage. Enroll during Open Enrollment or when you experience a life status change.
- Members of Local 95 do not participate in the university's dental and vision programs. Please see your union representative for information about the programs offered through the union.
- Local 95 members are not eligible for Health Care or Dependent Care Spending Accounts.
Sick and Accident Program: for short-term and long-term coverage
- 60% salary replacement in the event of a non-work-related illness or injury. Automatic enrollment.
- Short-term coverage up through 26 weeks. When short-term disability benefits are exhausted, MetLife automatically contacts you.
- Use the Sick and Accident Program Telephone Reporting Procedure [pdf].
FMLA Information for Members of Local 95
- FMLA requires covered employers to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job protected leave to eligible employees for certain family and medical reasons. Employees are eligible if they have worked for a covered employer for at lease one year, and for 1,250 hours over the previous 12 months.
- Unpaid leave must be granted for any of the following reasons:
- to care for the employee's child after birth, or placement for adoption or foster care;
- to care for the employee's spouse, son, daughter or parent who has a serious health condition; or
- for a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the employee's job.
- At the employee's or employer's; option, certain kinds of paid leave may be substituted for unpaid leave. (Sick days for example).
- The employee may be required to provide advance leave notice and medical certification.
- The employee ordinarily must provide 30 days advance notice when the leave is foreseeable.
- An employer may require medical certification to support a request for leave because of a serious health condition, and may require second or third opinions (at the employer's expense) and a fitness for duty report (return to work certification).
- Please complete the application form and return it to the benefits office as soon as possible. If your leave is to care for your spouse, son, daughter or parent with a serious health condition, you must have a physician complete the FMLA Attending Physician form and return it to the benefits office. The patient must also sign the form if over 18 years of age.
- When you are preparing to return to work after caring for a family member as listed above please complete the "Intent to Return to Work" form one week prior to your return and send it to your supervisor.
- Job benefits and protection:
- For the duration of FMLA leave, the employer must maintain the employee's health coverage under any "group health plan." However, the employee must continue to make the employee contribution during the leave. Benefits continuation information is enclosed if you are taking FMLA leave to care for a family member as previously described. If you are taking FMLA for your own serious health condition and are receiving Sickness and Accident benefits, benefit contributions will be deducted from your disability pay.
- Sickness and Accident Benefits and Family and Medical leave run concurrently.
- If you are on FMLA due to a work related injury you will need to make the employee contribution to continue benefits. The appropriate continuation form will be sent to you from the benefits office.
Life Insurance:
- Basic Life Insurance: $12,000 or 1.5 times annual salary, whichever is greater. Automatic enrollment.
- Optional Life Insurance: Coverage amount and rates based on age and salary. Purchase during Open Enrollment or when you experience a Life Status Change.
- Dependent Life Insurance is not available to union members.
Retirement Program
- : The university contributions equal to 8% of the employee's straight time hours paid (includes holidays, floating holidays, vacation, jury duty, sick leave days and bereavement leave; excludes sick and accident payments, workers' compensation and overtime).
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: Local 95 members can make employee supplemental contributions to the 麻豆村 retirement plans. This allows the employee to contribute their own money to a retirement option on a tax-deferred or post-tax (Roth) basis.