Staff working 20 hrs per week are eligible to
participate in our benefits program. The commissioners review the benefit
program yearly and provide a set amount to be paid on the employee's medical
premium. As of January 1, 2007, the district will pay full-time employees
$340 toward their premium. A full-time employee is one who works 30 or
more hours a week. The district will pay $280 toward the premium for
part-time employees, those working 20-29 hours per week. An employee
working less than 20 hours a week is not eligible for benefits. Employees
may add other dependents, his/her spouse and child(ren), however the full amount
of the additional premiums are paid by the employee. Our current benefit
plans are: Health
Insurance
Dental Insurance
Life Insurance
Some other benefit plans that Odessa Memorial
Healthcare Center offers are:
FSA Summary Plan Description - Employees
HRA Summary Plan Description - Employees
Pension plan
There are seven paid holidays for full-time
employees: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving, Christmas and one floating holiday.
Paid Time Off (PTO) is accrued on the hours an
employee works. The more years an employee works for Odessa Memorial
Healthacer Center, the higher accrual they will earn.
Less
than five year - .080880 per 168* hrs
After five years - .100000 per 208*
hrs
After ten years - .119231 per
288* hrs
* Includes vacation and holidays
Employees may request up to 40 hours of PTO to
be paid out once a year. Otherwise, employees are encouraged to take their
accrued PTO as true vacation and holiday hours. Those employees who have
worked at the center for 10 years or longer may request up to 80 hours of paid
PTO each year to control their banked hours at 288 hours. Hours cannot be
accrued over the limits shown above.
Extended Illness Bank (EIB) hours are earned
beginning the first day of employment at the rate of (8) days per 2,080 hours
worked (approximately 64 hours per year). These hours are used for
personal illness, illness or injury of an immediate family member, temporary
disability, or as required by law.
Employees are requires to use accrued EIB and
PTO hours when on designated Family and Medical Leave according to our policy.
Employees on time loss workmen's compensation are placed on FMLA leave, if they
otherwise qualify to run concurrently with their time loss benefits.
Jury Duty
Employees are allowed to use PTO hours if chosen
for jury duty. They may also choose to accept payment from the court,
however, employees cannot receive money from the court and OMHC.
Leaves of Absence
Besides FMLA and on the job injury, employees
are granted three days bereavement leave from their EIB hours in the even of
death of the person's mother, father, husband, wife, child, sister, brother,
stepparent or stepchild. If the employee is already on leave, this benefit
is not paid. In addition leaves are granted for military service.
Personal leaves and educational leaves may be granted on a case by case basis
with approval by the administrator.
