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. A full-time employee is one who works 32 or more hours a week,
those working 20-31 hours per week
are part-time and those working less than 20 hours a week are supplemental
and are not eligible for benefits. Employees
may add other dependents, his or her spouse and children. 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
Healthcare Center, the higher accrual they will earn.
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.
Extended Illness Bank (EIB) hours are earned
beginning the first day of employment. These hours
can be used only for an employee's extended illness, injury or the extended
illness or injury of an employee's eligible family members.
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.
