benefits
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| Agreement reached that keeps state worker share of health premium at 15 percent | State employees represented by a coalition of more than two-dozen unions have reached a contract agreement for the next two years that makes no major changes in workers’ share of health premiums. The Washington Federation of State Employees, which played a lead role in the coalition of… |
2014-09-24 | |
| PEBB ready to set health premium rates that don’t climb a lot for state workers in 2015 | Most but not all state employees can expect to pay a little more for health insurance in 2015, and a government board is poised to lock in the rates this week. The Washington Health Care Authority is proposing small premium increases for the state’s most popular plan, Uniform Medical Plan… |
2014-07-29 | |
| Professional staff community service leave day to be available | 2014-01-30 | ||
| Paper benefits forms must be submitted by Nov. 27 | 2013-11-25 | ||
| Health benefits open enrollment starts today | 2013-11-01 | ||
| Open enrollment for benefits begins Nov. 1 | 2013-10-29 | ||
| Looking for wellness, Gov. Inslee, unions back at negotiating table on health care | Negotiators for Gov. Jay Inslee and more than two-dozen labor unions are back at the bargaining table this month in a bid to settle outstanding health-care issues. After healthcare talks broke down in 2012 under the previous governor, the two sides agreed to contracts on pay while leaving health… |
2013-09-26 | |
| Part-time school, college staff may lose state health benefits | Thousands of part-time school employees and college instructors would be switched from state-funded health insurance to Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges under a complicated Senate budget proposal that backers say would save the state up to $57 million over the next two years. … |
2013-06-13 | |
| We don’t need to jettison pension plan that isn’t broken | It’s budget crunch time at the Legislature, which in recent years has given state employees the jitters. Lawmakers have turned to state workers several times to help fill budget deficits, asking them to take pay cuts and contribute more to their medical and pension plans. |
2013-04-02 | |
| Medical/dental open enrollment period ends Friday, Nov. 30 | 2012-11-02 |