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Additional Benefits

Paid Time Off Tuition Reimbursement Program
We provide Paid Time Off (PTO) to all eligible employees. Employees are To encourage you to build your professional knowledge and skills, we offer a
encouraged to use their earned PTO allowance each year. Earned, unused tuition reimbursement program. Through this program, you may be reimbursed
PTO (up to a maximum of 240 hours) may be carried over from year to year. for expenses directly related to your work-related course of study.
Once an employee reaches the accumulation cap of 240 hours, the employee
will cease to accrue additional PTO until the employee reduces his/her What educational programs are included?
PTO balance. • Nursing certification program
Full-time, regular employees will accrue PTO on the following basis: • AIT program
• Approved education course
Length of Service Hourly Accrual Rate Annual Equivalent • Associate’s degree
90 days and less than 5 years 0.0692 144 hours or 18 days • Bachelor’s degree

5 years and less than 10 years 0.0923 192 hours or 24 days • Master’s degree
10 years or more 0.1154 240 hours or 30 days For more information, please refer to policy tech for the written policy.
Who is eligible for consideration?
Premium Pay
• Full-time employees with a minimum of 12 consecutive months at the center
Regular, non-exempt employees who are not Department Heads and who
are scheduled to work on designated premium pay days (per the written • Employees considered in good standing
advance approval of the Executive Director) will be paid premium pay. Note: Employees must reapply each semester.
Premium pay is two times the employee’s regular hourly rate for the actual
hours worked on the designated premium pay day(s). How much is the benefit?
Premium pay days include: Each center may award up to $2,500 per year to three individuals.
• New Year’s Day • Thanksgiving Day
• Memorial Day • Christmas Eve
• Independence Day • Christmas Day
• Labor Day

Note: Premium pay applies to all eligible employees except those covered
under a collective bargaining agreement.

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