The other alternative is for one to take the basic plan for employee and family and the other take no insurance and get the NuFlex dollars in their paycheck. If an employee has a spouse working for the state, they are grandfathered as long as they do not change plans. If an employee's FTE changes, it must be for more than 6 months before it affects benefits. There will be meetings in Nov. to learn more about health care coverage and changes. If your employees are unable to attend, you can arrange for Benefits Office personnel to come to your department.
Parking is a pretax benefit only if payroll deduction is used.
The benefits office is running short on benefit packages so please don't store them in your office. Request packets as you need them and only give them to new hires and not to every candidate if possible. Since some departments are doing their own time entry, benefits is not seeing time cards to find out about injury leave. Worker's comp will pay for up to 5 days of injury leave if a doctor's statement accompanies the time card. This injury leave should be recorded as INJ on the time card.