New Web site opens window on benefits

Thanks to PS&T Contract Article 42, PEF members in state service have access to a broad network of resources to help manage many personal, family and career challenges and issues.

Article 42 establishes the Family Benefits Program and Work-Life Services, which now can be accessed online at www.worklife.state.ny.us. Your Employee Assistance Program is now also located at that Web site.

These combined services include:
• Life-planning tools for making decisions and developing strategies for parenthood, midlife and retirement;

• Confidential, personalized help dealing with issues ranging from budgeting and debt to substance abuse and addictive behaviors; and
• Information about how to have a healthy lifestyle and improve your physical and mental health.

The Work-Life site also has links for pre-tax savings programs established under the contract — the Dependent Care Advantage Account, the Health Care Savings Advantage Account and NYS Rides.

For more information, call EAP toll free at 1-800-822-0244. Or call EAP Director Karen Dunn at 518 486-9769 or Family Benefits Director Deborah Miller at 518 473-8091.

The Work-Life Services Web Site is jointly sponsored by the NYS Family Benefits Program and the NYS Employee Assistance Program and funded through the PS&T and other NYS employees’ contracts.

PEF’s representative on the joint committee for these benefits is Pat Smith.
— Sherry Halbrook

The Communicator April 2006

Features

Agencies wastes $ on consultants
Members work to stop bad budget
DOT members meet lawmakers
PEF gets support  in stopping cuts
DOT members tell all at hearing
New program addresses grievances
Battle for accountability heats up

Departments
President's Message
You Said It
Retirees In Action
Membership Benefits &Travel

Union Matters
PEF political endorsements...
Probation officers want fairness
Parole officers caseload is murder
Nurses must mobilize to pass...
Performance award checks coming
Progress: Stop Workplace Violence
Promotion Test Battery update
PS&T Contract Survey
2006 Conv. Delegate Information
State must re-bid Rx contract
New web site shows benefits

Other Links
Professional Directory
Members' Classified

Member Communicator Feedback
Prefer The Online Edition?
How To Advertise Here
The Communicator Staff

Questions on this site?
Email the
Webmaster

Search Communicators for:


Site search
Web search
powered by
FreeFind