The outstanding benefits package provided by GUMC to our full-time staff employees reflects their central importance to our mission of excellence in patient care, education and clinical research. The health and life insurance options and other benefit plans offered are also reflective of the continuing feedback received from employees about what is of most value to themselves and their families. Program Credit Union Recreation Paid Leave Full-time employees of all departments on the GUMC schedule receive 21 days of paid leave in the first year of employment. Additional days of paid leave accrue at a rate of one per year up to a maximum of 31 days.
Employees also receive seven standard holidays and one floating holiday per year.
Paid leave may be used for vacation, illness or any other situation that requires an employee to be absent on a workday, with the prior approval of an appropriate supervisor. Employees may use medical leave for serious health conditions. Additional coverage is available for up to five times annual base pay, to be decided and paid for by the employee. Core policy coverage begins on the first day of work, with no need to prove insurability, for all employees who have completed and filed an Enrollment Card. The entire cost of the STD plan is paid by the employer.