For Your Benefit is a newsletter addressing the benefits offered to you as a UT employee. This newsletter provides an opportunity to communicate information and issues that directly affect you. You will receive this newsletter twice a year. Because of the important nature of the content, it is being mailed to your home address. View the Spring newsletter.

Have you ever thought about what would happen if you had an unexpected illness or injury that caused you to be unable to work?  You still need to a paycheck, but you can’t work… then your sick leave and annual leave are used up? Are you in the Sick Leave Bank?

The UTC Sick Leave Bank is a common pool of hours to which staff and 12-month faculty donate some of their accumulated leave. The sick leave bank shall provide emergency sick leave to member employees who have suffered disability due to an unplanned personal illness, injury, or quarantine and who have exhausted their compensatory time and personal, sick, and annual leave balances.

Employees may join the Sick Leave Bank during the enrollment period (April 1 – June 30). Any regular staff or 12-month faculty member, who accrues sick leave and has a current sick leave balance of at least 48 hours on June 30, is eligible to join for a donation of 24 hours. The sick leave balance requirement is prorated for part-time employees.  Read MORE..

If you are enrolled in the health insurance, you should’ve received at your home address a new handbook and insurance card effective January 1, 2012. If you did not receive your card, please check your home mailing address listed on your pay advice.  If it is incorrect, please email Kathy Taylor with your home address and phone number.

You can print a temporary card at Blue Cross/Blue Shield:  https://www.bcbst.com/secure/members/
or Cigna:  http://www.cigna.com/sites/stateoftn/online.html

You can obtain a replacement card by phoning Blue Cross/Blue Shield at 1-800-558-6213
or Cigna at 1-800-244-6224

The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a consultation service for employees and their eligible dependents, regardless of whether they participate in the Group Insurance Program, who may be experiencing personal or work place problems. Magellan Health Services is the company contracted by the state to provide EAP, Mental Health and Substance Abuse services. All services are strictly confidential and can be accessed by calling 1.800.308.4934, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Magellan offers a wide variety of information and resources, including the ParTNers EAP Newsletter.

For Your Benefit is a newsletter addressing the benefits offered to you as a UT employee. This newsletter provides an opportunity to communicate information and issues that directly affect you. You will receive this newsletter twice a year. Because of the important nature of the content, it is being mailed to your home address. View the Fall 2011 Newsletter.