Employment Benefits
HRMC offers a very competitive benefits package including:
- a choice of medical, life, dental, and/or vision insurance
- generous vacation and sick time
- generous employer contributions to the 401(k) retirement savings plan
- tuition reimbursement
- and many other supplemental benefits
These benefits are available to employees scheduled to work 40 hours or more during a two-week pay period.
Insurance
Health Insurance
Plan: Avera Health Plan
Benefit: $2,000/$3,500 deductible plans for single, employee + 1 and family
Eligible: Employees regularly scheduled to work 40 hours or more per pay period
Effective: The first of the month following 30 days of employment
HRMC and employee share the premium cost
Life Insurance
Plan: UNUM Group Life/AD&D
Benefit: One times yearly salary to maximum of $200,000
Eligible: Employees working 40 hours or more per pay period
Effective: The first of the month following 90 days of employment
Elimination period: 9 months
Age reduction: 65 percent at age 70, 50 percent at age 75
Portability option at time employment ends
HRMC pays 100 percent of the premium
Additional Life Insurance
Plan: UNUM Voluntary Life/AD&D
Benefit: Lesser of 5 times salary or $500,000
Increments of:
- $10,000 for employees
- $ 5,000 for spouse
- $ 2,000 for child
Guarantee issue: Employee – $150,000, Spouse – $25,000; Child – $10,000
Eligible: Employees working 40 hours or more per pay period
Effective: The first of the month following 90 days of employment
Elimination period: 9 months
Age reduction: 65 percent at age 70, 50 percent at age 75
Portability option at time employment ends
Employee pays 100 percent of the premium based on age
Long Term Disability Insurance
Plan: UNUM Long Term Disability
Benefit: 50 percent of monthly earnings to a maximum of $5,000
Eligible: Employees working 40 hours or more per pay period
Effective: The first of the month following 30 days of employment
Elimination period: 90 days
Definition of disability: 2 year own occupation
Employee pays 100 percent of the premium based on age and salary
Dental Insurance
Plan: Delta Dental
Benefit: Annual max of $1,000 per person per covered year.
Eligible: Employees working 40 hours or more per pay period
Effective: The first of the month following 30 days of employment
Employer pays 100 percent of the employee premium–employer and employee share cost of family coverage
Vision Insurance
Plan: VSP
Benefit: WellVision exam: $10 copay for exam & glasses every calendar year. Lenses and contact allowance every calendar year. Frame allowance every other calendar year.
Eligible: Employees working 40 hours or more per pay period
Effective: The first of the month following 30 days of employment
Employee pays 100 percent of the premium–Employee, employee + one, employee + children and family options.
401(k) Retirement
Plan: 401(k) T. Rowe Price
Benefit: Traditional pre-tax and ROTH Employee Retirement Plan
Eligible: Employees age 18 or older
Effective: The first month following 30 days of employment
Employee contributes to individual plans up to specified IRS limit
Employer match is 25% of employee contribution up to 1% – employee must contribute 4% to get full employer match
Paid Time Off (PTO) & Extended Illness Time (EIT)
Eligibility: Employees regularly scheduled to work 32 hours or more a pay period
Accrual: Upon employment
Usage: Upon employment
PTO: Paid time off for absences from scheduled work for vacations, holidays, personal business, short term illness, family care, voting and other needs requiring time off from work
EIT: Paid time for employee absences from scheduled work following 16 hours of PTO due to accident, injury or illness or immediately available for employee time off due to surgery
Wellness Bonus
Eligibility: Employees regularly scheduled to work 32 hours or more a pay period who reach a maximum EIT accrual of 264 hours
Accrual: Up to 56 hours per pay period based of full-time employment (2.15 hours per pay period) or .02687 per hour paid
Paid: 50 percent of Wellness Bonus hours are paid the second payroll in November
After payment the account resets to zero and EIT remains at 264 Wellness Bonus is paid first and then EIT hour are used for qualifying illness
Bereavement Leave
Eligibility: Employees scheduled for work hours and/or scheduled PTO/EIT hours due to death of a family member
Paid leave for immediate family members: Up to 3 days for employee’s spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, father & mother-in-law, son & daughter-in-law, stepparent, stepchildren, stepbrother, and stepsister. The third day shall be no later than the day after the funeral.
Paid leave for brother & sister-in-law: The day of the funeral
Shift Differential
An additional $1.50 per hour is paid to employees working certain evening and night shifts.
Stand By (On-Call) Pay
A $4.50 per hour is offered to all hourly employees for time spent on a stand-by status
Flexible Spending Accounts
Benefit: Payment of dependent care and healthcare expenses with pre-tax dollars.
Eligibility: Employees regularly scheduled to work 32 hours or more per pay period.
Includes: Dependent care of up to $7,500 annually for qualifying individuals and eligible medical expense reimbursement of $130 minimum up to the annual IRS contribution limit (check with HR for annual maximum information).
Flex spending account rollover option: Up to $500 for one year
Effective: The first of the month following 30 days of employment
Health Savings Account
Benefit: Payment of healthcare expenses with pre-tax dollars.
Eligibility: Employees regularly scheduled to work 40 hours or more per pay period and have enrolled in the $3,500 deductible health insurance plan.
Includes: Eligible medical expense reimbursement of $130 minimum up to the annual IRS contribution limit (check with HR for annual maximum information).
Effective: The first of the month following 30 days of employment
Identity Theft Protection
Benefit: Supplemental identity theft coverage
Eligibility: Employees regularly scheduled to work 40 hours per pay period
Effective: First of the month following 30 days of employment
Employee pays 100%
Tuition Assistance
Benefit: Tuition assistance, up to $2,000 per fiscal year for approved courses offered by an accredited educational institution or recognized certification program
Eligibility: Employees who have been employed for a minimum of one year and regularly scheduled to work 32 hours per pay period prior to the last six months
Employee Store
The employee store offers discounts prices on various food and non-food items to all employees.
Fitness Center Membership
Discounted membership rates offered to employees with regularly scheduled hours. Employee contributes 100 percent.