Benefits Summary
Cerenity Senior Care strives to provide a balanced, comprehensive benefits program that helps employees make choices around their specific needs. The Cerenity Senior Care Employee Benefits program offers employer-paid core benefits. Also, voluntary benefits (some with a cost-sharing between employee and employer) that help maximize your security.
Eligibility
Non-contract, full-time and part-time employees who are authorized 32 or more hours per pay period are eligible for most benefits. To be eligible for long-term disability, you must be authorized at least 48 hours per pay period. Eligibility and coverage may vary for each union contract.
Paying for your coverage
Most benefit deductions are taken on a pre-tax basis. All benefit deductions are taken from your paycheck on the first and second paychecks of the month.
CERENITY SENIOR CARE BENEFITS
- Health
- Basic Life Insurance
- 403b Retirement Plan
- Dental
- Optional Life Insurance
- Retirement Plan
- Health / Dependent Care Spending Accounts
- Spouse Life /Child Life Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- Tuition Payment
- Holidays
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off
SPENDING ACCOUNTS
Spending accounts allow you to set aside money to pay for eligible expenses with tax-free dollars. The spending accounts offer significant tax advantages because you don't pay Social Security, federal or state taxes on the portion of your income that you contribute to your spending account. The money is not taxable under federal law.
Your Choices
- Health care spending account - Use this account to cover the cost of health, dental, vision and hearing expenses which are not covered under an insurance plan for you and your dependents. You may contribute up to $3,000 per year.
- Dependent care spending account - Use this account to cover the cost of dependent care while you work. You may use this for expenses for the care of a child under age 13 or a disabled spouse, child or parent.
Basic Life insurance
Basic term life insurance coverage provides a tax-free benefit to your survivors if you die while covered by this plan.
Optional Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment Benefit (AD&D)
Optional life insurance is in addition to the basic life insurance coverage provided by Cerenity Senior Care.
You also have the option to include with employee optional life insurance is an equal amount of accidental death and dismemberment coverage (AD&D).
Dependent life coverage
If you choose optional life insurance coverage for yourself, you have the option of choosing coverage for your spouse, domestic partner and / or dependent children.
Short term disability (STD)
Short term disability pays a benefit to you if you must be away from work for more than 14 consecutive calendar days due to illness, injury or pregnancy.
Long term disability (LTD) voluntary
Non-contract employees must be authorized 48 or more hours per pay period to be eligible for this benefit.
403 (b) Retirement plan
If you are an eligible non-contract employee you will be automatically enrolled in the plan unless you take action within the first 30 days of your hire or your plan eligibility. The automatic enrollment gives you a three percent deferral and investment in the Fidelity Freedom Fund that correlates to your birth date.
The Employee Retirement Plan
Eligible Cerenity Senior Care employees are covered under the Cerenity Employee Retirement Plan. Cerenity contributes three percent of your total pay if you meet certain requirements, you must be at least age 21, work at least 1000 hours per calendar year and be an active employee on December 31st of each year. There is a 5 year vesting schedule; you earn 20% towards vesting each year you work 1000 hours. You do not contribute to this plan.
Holidays
Full-time employees (authorized at 9 days a pay period) receive seven (7) holidays per calendar year. Holidays include New Year's Day, Good Friday or Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Union contract holidays may vary.
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Cerenity offers a convenient PTO plan that allows flexibility in how you use your paid time away from work. Our plan consolidates vacation and sick time into a single account! Your PTO balance is accrued on an hourly basis, and updated each pay period.
Employee Assistance Program - Provided by LifeWorks
Employees and members of their household can receive confidential and professional assistance with a broad range of problems including, but not limited to, chemical abuse, troubling relationships, family issues, emotional distress, financial difficulties, and work-related problems. The program is voluntary, free of charge, and confidential.
Educational Benefits
Cerenity promotes the professional development and continuing education for our employees through tuition reimbursement and tuition payment.
This page is a brief summary of benefits offered by Cerenity Senior Care. Benefit Program details can be found in the documents that govern the various programs. If any discrepancy exits between this page and the legal plan documents, the legal plan documents will govern. Cerenity retains the right to modify benefit programs in a manner consistent with business needs and organizational objectives.
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