MEDICAL TRUST. The County is to provide a 10-day notice of hiring a new employee from the date of hiring to CAPE and provide a face-to-face meeting with CAPE Representative(s) on County time with the new employee(s) for up to 60 minutes and in a location away from the employee(s) work area.
MEDICAL TRUST. Facilitates the administrative ability to transfer mandatory employee salary-deduction contributions to the Retiree CCU Trust for Plan G CAPE Members pursuant to the terms of the 2018 CCU Fringe Benefit MOU and pursuant to an agreement with the trustees for the CCU Trust addressing administrative issues. APPENDIX B CAPE DELEGATE PROGRAM CAPE members who are official Delegates for the union can be released with pay to perform duties for the union up to 20 hours through the length of the contract (an increase from the previous 10 hours). If a Delegate needs to be released beyond 20 hours, the CEO will consider the Union’s request on a case-by-case basis. IMPORTANT FRINGE BENEFITS CONTRACT INFORMATION Summary of changes in the Successor Fringe Benefits M.O.U. CAPE, alongside fourteen of our sister-unions united in the Coalition of County Unions (CCU), have reached an agreement with the County of Los Angeles on a Successor Fringe Contract worth more than $40 million. Below is a reminder regarding the summary of important changes in the Successor Fringe Benefits M.O.U. Term Three years. July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. Negotiated choices contribution The parties have reached agreement on the following increases to the County’s contribution to the Choices Plan for plan years 2023, 2024, and 2025. Critically, the new base for 2023 is more than a full percentage point above the average medical insurance increase of 2.9% for 2023, assuring that County employees affiliated with unions in the CCU will have no loss of income and no increase to out-of-pocket expenses due to medical or dental inflation. Health insurance contributions COVERAGE YEAR AND % INCREASE 2022 • 2.50% 2023 • 4.00% 2024 • 2.50% 2025 • 2.00% Waive $244.00 $244.00 $244.00 $244.00 Employee only $1,056.92 $1,099.20 $1,126.68 $1,149.21 Employee +1 $1,928.36 $2,005.49 $2,055.63 $2,096.74 Employee +2 or more $2,277.98 $2,369.10 $2,428.33 $2,476.90 C ONTINUED ON NEXT P A GE IMPORTANT FRINGE BENEFITS CONTRACT INFORMATION continued Eligibility for the CAPE Health Plans New hires will now be eligible to join the CAPE Health Plans throughout the year; however, employees must meet union membership requirements during the next open enrollment period. Dependent care $1 million increase to the Dependent Care Spending Account. Life Insurance Term Life Insurance benefit increase of $3,000 per employee for members in LACERA Retirement Plans A, B, C, D, G, and E. Commuting problem Increase of $100,000 to the Civic Cent...
MEDICAL TRUST. CCU has established a trust (the “CCU Trust”) for the purposes of providing certain post- retirement health benefits through a retiree medical expense reimbursement plan (“Plan”) to certain employees represented by CCU and their tax dependents. If the County agrees to participate in the CCU Trust and Plan by facilitating the transfer of mandatory employee salary-deduction contributions to the CCU Trust pursuant to the terms of the 2018 CCU Fringe Benefit MOU (“Fringe MOU”) and pursuant to an agreement with the trustees for the CCU Trust addressing administrative issues (“Special Agreement”), then BU 411 authorizes the County to permit the trustee (or its agent or delegate) to access the County’s payroll system to (i) deduct $25 on a pre-tax basis from the paychecks of employees represented by BU 411 who are designated below as eligible to contribute to the CCU Trust and Plan (“Eligible Employees”) and (ii) mandatorily contribute those deducted amounts to the CCU Trust on behalf of those Eligible Employees (“Mandatory Contributions”). Individual employees shall not have the ability to opt in or out of these Mandatory Contributions. Such Mandatory Contributions shall be made in accordance with and subject to the Fringe MOU and the Special Agreement. Any payroll deductions made pursuant to this MOU shall be begin as soon as practicable, but no earlier than six (6) months after both the Special Agreement and Fringe MOU have been executed and shall continue until modified by a new or amended BU 411 MOU. For purposes of Mandatory Contributions to the CCU Trust, BU 411 designates the following as Eligible Employees: full-time, permanent or recurrent employees represented by BU 411 and who are first hired by the County on and after July 1, 2014. The paystub for each Eligible Employee shall include a description of the deduction as required by the California Labor Code. This Article will become effective upon mutual agreement between the Parties.
