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Posted: 12/31/2014
In addition to representation and political action, members are also eligible for a wide range of low-cost group-rate insurance benefits. For the new year, make it a resolution to reassess your insurance situation and make sure you and your family (an even your pets) are covered in case something happens. ACSS provides the following insurance plans at discounted group rates:
Visit ACSS's Member Benefits to learn more about these fantastic insurance plans available to you. In 2015, make sure you and your loved ones are covered.
Posted: 12/19/2014
ACSS' holiday hours for this week and next week are as follows:
Wednesday 12/24/14 -- 8am - 1pm Thursday 12/25/14 -- ACSS CLOSED Friday 12/26/14 -- ACSS CLOSED
Thursday 1/1/15 -- ACSS CLOSED Friday 1/2/15 -- ACSS CLOSED
Posted: 12/17/2014
CalPERS has joined State Controller John Chiang in supporting prefunded healthcare plans for California retirees to supplement future health care needs. Chiang, who is also a member of the CalPERS Board of Administration, issued a press release on 12/16/14 noting a $71.8 billion unfunded retiree healthcare liability for California.
Prefunding retiree healthcare is a fiscally prudent move to help close the unfunded liability gap in health care for the State’s retirees. CalPERS optional California Employers' Retiree Benefit Trust (CERBT) Fund is helping employers at all levels take a proactive step to ensure the long-term sustainability and security of health benefits for their retirees.
The fund has 439 participating employers, including the State of California, which contributes for (three) employee bargaining units that took the proactive step of agreeing to prefund health coverage for their members. The CERBT fund is currently valued at more than $4 billion and is currently the largest Other Post-Employment Benefits fund in the California.
View the CalPERS Press Release here with additional information links.
View the State Controller Chaing's Press Release.
Posted: 12/12/2014
Have lunch and learn with ACSS' new Member Outreach Organizer in Southern California, Maureen Douglas. On Thursday, December 18th, she will be visitin CalVet in Los Angeles in Fourth Floor Dining Room of Building D at 11500 Nimitz Avenue from 11:00am – 1:00pm. Come and learn more about ACSS, your rights as an excluded employee and hear about the issues ACSS is working on that matter to you.
Lunch will be provided to current and potential members. Please RSVP so we can ensure we have an adequate amount of food. Come by on your break or lunch!
RSVP NOW! before Wednesday December 17th.
Click here for more details about this event.
Posted: 12/8/2014
CalPERS releases a study by the National Institute on Retirement Security entitled, "Still a Better Bang for the Buck." This was an update on the Economic Efficiencies of Defined Benefit Pensions. Download the study here (PDF, 3MB). In addition, here is a web address where you can access this same study:
http://www.nirsonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=71&Itemid=61
Posted: 12/5/2014
Attention all members: The ACSS board meeting in San Diego is drawing near on January 16-17th, 2015. The board meeting will give us all the chance to come together and evaluate our progress and plan for moving ahead as the state's largest association representing state supervisors, managers, and confidential employees. Check the Events Calendar for the link to the hotel and details on the tentative agenda.
Posted: 11/21/2014
Want to nominate yourself or someone else for a Chapter officer position , but you can't make it to your Chapter's Open Nominations meeting? No problem! Just make sure that you submit your nomination for yourself or someone else in writing by the date of the Chapter's Open Nominations meeting date.
Nominations can be submitted by:
If you don’t nominate yourself or someone else by the date of your Chapter’s Open Nominations meeting, then your nomination will NOT be on the ballot for the 2015 election. Official candidate consent forms can be submitted later than the date of the Chapter Open Nomination meeting.
To find out the date of your meeting, check the ACSS Events Calendar .
Your Chapter needs you! Stand up and lead the state’s largest and most experienced organization dedicated to helping your fellow managers, supervisors, and excluded state employees. Positions in the following seats need to be filled:
Posted: 11/19/2014
It is unfortunate news to ACSS that San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is once again ramping up his unreasonable efforts to attack pensions in statewide initiatives planned for 2016.
CalPERS comments that changes to the pension benefit levels should be determined by the employer and the employees, not at the ballot box. It is painful for unions and workers that local governments move motions based on the special interests that paid them to get them in office.
Reed argues that the number of CalPERS retirees with six-figure pensions has tripled since 2006 and pension debt for local governments is expected to increase by as much as fifty percent over the next five years. Reed contends that something has to give. Reed says, “For me, it is unfinished business. I am stubborn, persistent, whatever you want to call it.”
Reed mentions that the retirees are the folks that should have the least impact because they are already retired. And he goes on to focus fiscal pension reform on current employees because they have the most capacity to earn. “The younger employees understand that it’s something that’s not sustainable and they are the ones who are going to get hurt.” says Reed.
What are your thoughts on this issue as supervisors, managers and excluded employees? Comment on this article.
Posted: 11/18/2014
CalHR released memorandum PML-2014-045 on the prevention and management of illness in the workplace. CalHR recommends the following guidelines for departments to use for absences that may occur due to the influenza (flu) season. It should be noted that while the symptoms are similar, the flu is disticntly different than the Ebola virus. For more information on the Ebola virus, please review PML 2014-039.
The memo offers managers and supervisors a few important considerations:
Based on recommendations from the California Department of Public Health and the CDD&P, the memo contains links to more information on flu season guidance specifically for Supervisors and Managers.
Cover your coughs and wash your hands often! ACSS hopes you and your employees stay healthy this fall and winter around the workplace.
Posted: 11/14/2014
Are you a leader? Do you want to continue to shape and mold the ACSS organization into a well-oiled, fine-tuned machine? Then YES! You should nominate yourself to be an ACSS Delegate. Or if you know someone who would be a good candidate for this position, you can nominate him/her at your Chapter’s Open Nominations Meeting.
A delegate embodies the following roles:
In addition to an ACSS Delegate, there are other positions in which you can nominate yourself or someone else:
Chapter President:
Chapter Vice President:
Chapter Secretary/Treasurer:
Your local ACSS Chapter needs you to stand up and help lead the State’s largest and most experienced organization protecting supervisors, managers and excluded employees. Nominate yourself or someone else at your Chapter’s Open Nominations Meeting in November/December 2014. Download a Candidate Consent Form here.
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