Benefits

Benefits are provided to full-time employees and regularly scheduled part-time employees working a minimum of 30 hours per week on the active payroll.

Vacation

The first year of service, all full-time employees working at least 40 hours per week will accumulate paid vacation at the following rate: 1.53 paid hours off per 80 hours worked, or one week of vacation per year. An employee who is separated before a year of service is ineligible to receive compensation for hours accrued, but not used. Employees who complete their first year may use approved, accrued vacation time. Starting the third year of employment, the accumulation rate will be 3.08 hours of vacation per 80 hour pay period, or two weeks of vacation per year. Starting the seventh year of employment, the accumulation rate will be 4.62 hours of vacation per 80 hours worked, or three weeks of vacation per year. Starting the 10th year of employment, the accumulation rate will be 6.15 hours of vacation per 80 hours worked, or four weeks paid vacation per year for the 10th year and for all subsequent years. Staff working in a grant funded position must use all accrued vacation each year before the end of their grant. Any vacation not used prior to the end date of the grant will be forfeited if the grant is not refunded for the requested amount. Regularly scheduled, part-time employees with one (1) year of service, working a minimum of 30 hours per week, will earn vacation time pro-rated against the full-time schedule. Randomly scheduled part-time employees and employees under 30 hours per week are not eligible for vacation time. Regularly scheduled part-time employees earn vacation time pro-rated against the full-time schedule. Full-time employees are defined as having completed their evaluation period, and in their letter of hire/transfer/promotion are scheduled 40 hours per week. Regularly scheduled part-time employees are defined as having completed their evaluation period and in their letter of hire/transfer/promotion are scheduled 30-39 hours per week. Vacation time may be carried over from year to year, but employees may not accrue more than 160 hours of vacation.

Medical Leave

Full and regularly scheduled part time employees working a minimum of 30 hours per week on the active payroll will receive 6 paid sick days per year prorated upon the number of hours worked. Any unused days in a given year will be accumulated up to a maximum of 200 hours. Sick time can be taken when an employee is ill, has a medical appointment or needs to take care of an immediate family member who is ill. Sick time is monitored and abuse will not be tolerated. Employees may be asked to provide a doctor’s excuse at any time. If an employee is found to be abusing sick time, they may lose compensation for missed days or be separated. Regularly scheduled part-time employees are defined as having completed their evaluation period and in their letter of hire/transfer/promotion are scheduled 30-39 hours per week. Regularly scheduled part-time employees will accrue medical leave prorated against the full-time schedule after one year of employment. Employees working under 30 hours per week, do not receive paid medical leave. The Supervisor has the right to deny paid medical leave. Employees taking over 40 hours of medical leave per year may be considered to be abusing this company benefit. Employees must provide a medical certification for any absences over 40 hours. Excuses must be attached to your time card for the pay period you are requesting paid sick time. Employees requesting sick time payment that do not have a medical certification attached to their time card, will not receive paid sick time for that particular period of time, or in the future, meaning if you turn in a medical certification after the timecard deadline, you will not be paid. Disciplinary action may be taken against an employee to include separation.

Medical / Dental

Full-time and regularly scheduled part-time employees pay a portion of the cost of medical/dental benefits. Full-time employees pay 25%, regularly scheduled part-time employees pay 50%. Medical / Dental coverage can begin after 90 days of service and consists of:

• Pharmacy card, $20-25 Co-pay on insurance formulary drug list and $10 on generic drugs
• Disability benefit of 66 2/3% of annual salary
• Credit Union
• Seven National Holidays
• Three Personal Days
• Bereavement Leave
• Section 125 "cafeteria" plan
• Employee Activities
• Automatic check deposit
• Free Parking
• Payment of professional dues if approved by CEO or CFO/COO
• Life insurance of one times the employee's annual salary
• Retirement

All regularly scheduled part-time and full-time employees are enrolled in our retirement plan after one year of employment. The Community Health Center approved 3% of each eligible employees wage to be deposited into their retirement accounts. Each year the Board of Directors establishes retirement account contributions based on corporate performance. Employees are 100% vested after seven years.