Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Re: Open Enrollment Benefits;
Monday, September 24, 2018
To: All Bargaining Unit Employees,
The Company has chosen to send out the open enrollment forms with the “TBD” on any of the costs associated with the benefits. The Union is not in support of this action and have advised the Company to not send anything out until we have negotiated the cost of any of the benefits.
To protect all of the bargaining unit employees from being forced to decide without any of the facts presented so that you can make an educated decision on what benefits you chose and the cost associated with those benefits, the Union has provided you with new “Benefit Authorization” language. Please take the following steps with the open enrollment form:
➢ Mark what benefits you want to receive.
➢ Do not sign the Company “Authorization” page in your packet.
➢ Insert the Union supplied Authorization language.
➢ Print your name, sign, and date the new Union Authorization language.
➢ Return your packet to the Company.
For bargaining unit employees that don’t change your current benefit elections, you need to fill out the Union Authorization form and submit that back to the Company.
The Union feels this is the best way to protect all of the bargaining unit employees from deciding benefits without having the facts in front of you.
Thank you for your attention to the above.
Sincerely,
Scott Northrup
Business Manager/Financial Secretary
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AUTHORIZATION:
By signing and submitting this form I authorize my employer to payroll deduct the cost of the benefits elected. In the event I terminate employment I authorize deduction from my final check of any amount benefits have received but for which I have not yet paid.
I have selected those benefits and the desired levels without knowledge of their cost. I have done so based on the knowledge that ongoing negotiations between IBEW Local 1116 and TEP will lead to a renewal of our current collective bargaining agreement and the terms and costs of TEP’s health plan, at that time, I will be able to make a final decision concerning what benefits and what level of benefits I desire to maintain and I will alter my options. Up to the date that I exercise such right I agree to be billed at the current rates, any changes that I make shall be effective from the date that I make them and shall not be retroacted,
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