RELIEF POSITIONS DO NOT QUALIFY FOR BENEFITS
Employee Benefits Webpage Union Memorandums of Understanding
PERSONAL PAID LEAVES- 12 paid holidays
- 16 hours of floating holiday awarded on July 4th
- 80 – 160 hours vacation
- 96 hours of sick leave annually
- 12 paid Personal Flex Days
MONTHLY COUNTY CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS BENEFITS
The County contributes monthly:
- $1,146.54 towards single employee benefits
- $2,035 towards employee + one dependent
- $2,701 towards family benefits
- $250 if you opt out of health insurance due to being covered under another qualifying plan.
BENEFITS AND ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION- Available Medical Plans: Anthem Blue Cross CARE PPO, Anthem Blue Cross CHOICE PPO, and Kaiser for those within their service area. Law Enforcement Anthem Blue Cross plan available for specific positions. Tuolumne County is not within the Kaiser service area.
- Dental Plan: Delta Dental
- Vision: VSP Vision Care
- Life Insurance: $50,000 + option life insurance plan for purchase
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance: $50,000
- Retirement: Social Security and CalPERS
- Retirement: Voluntary Deferred Compensation plan (457b)
- Longevity/Retention Pay:
- 5 years = 2.5%
- 10 years = 5%
- 15 years = 10%
- 20 years = 15%
- 25 years = 20%
- Education Incentive Pay: 1 Certificate 2.5%, 2+ Certificates 5%
- Probation: 13 or 26 completed pay periods
VOLUNTARY BENEFITS- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
ADDITIONAL MISCELLANEOUS BENEFITS
- Credit Unions
- California 529 College Savings Program
- Propane Discounts
- Verizon & AT&T Wireless Discounts
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Employees may qualify for:
- Employee down payment and closing cost assistance
- Student loan forgiveness
- Educational assistance program
COMMITMENT TO EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT
The County has a “Learning Forward” commitment to staff. We are dedicated to our employee’s growth and provide access to a career coach/employee development professional and provides an educational assistance program.
- A Road Worker shall receive a twenty-five ($0.25) cent per hour pay differential for each hour assigned to perform as a heavy equipment operator, when that assignment exceeds five (5) hours in any given standard tour of duty.* Employees who work four (4) hours or more in a shift beginning between 8:00 pm and 4:00 am receive a shift differential of $8.00 per shift. *Upon successful completion of 160-hour training program.
- Social Workers, Social Service Supervisor I/II, Program Managers, and Deputy Directors receive a five (5%) percent salary differential.
- HCU employees who work between 6:00 pm and 7:00 am receive a shift differential of $3.00 per hour. The shift must start at 2:00 pm or later and applies to hours actually worked between 6:00 pm and 7:00 am.
- An IT Technician required to return to work or return to work on a day not regularly scheduled and work four (4) hours or more in a shift receive shift differential at the following rates:
- 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm shift - $6.50 per shift
- 11:00 pm to 7:00 am shift - $9.00 per shift
- OE3 employees who work four (4) hours or more in a shift receive shift differential at the following rates:
- 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm shift - $6.50 per shift
- 11:00 pm to 7:00 am shift - $9.00 per shift
ON-CALL PAY
Assigned personnel shall receive on-call pay of six
dollars and fifteen cents ($6.15) per hour for each hour served on on-call duty. Assigned personnel become ineligible for on-call pay once activated to call back status.
Assigned Animal Control Officers receive on-call pay of two dollars and seventy-five cents ($2.75) per hour from the time they are released from active duty but not before the regular conclusion of shift, until they are back on active duty or the Animal Control workday starts. For each call back, the Animal Control Officers receive overtime pay from the time they leave their home until the time they return to their home or commence their workday.
CALL BACK PAY
Call-back compensation shall be paid for one and one-half (1½) hours at straight-time rates for each call-back occurrence and is in lieu of any travel time and expense to and from home and the first or last work contact point.
UNIFORM ALLOWANCE
Animal Control Officers receive an annual uniform allowance of five hundred dollars ($500.00). Fifty percent (50%) of the allowance is payable during the period of July through December and fifty percent (50%) is payable January through June of each fiscal year.
Fire Prevention Inspectors receive an annual uniform allowance of seven hundred dollars ($700.00). Fifty percent (50%) of the allowance is payable during the period of July through December and fifty percent (50%) is payable January through June of each fiscal year.
An annual uniform allowance of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) each fiscal year paid twice a year in January and July will be provided for the purchase of boots, coats, shirts, hats, uniforms, gloves, gators (snake proof), overalls or coveralls. Items of clothing will reflect the County logo or wording identifying the employee as a County employee. This section applies only to the following classifications: Appraiser, Building Inspector, Environmental Health Specialist, Planner, Solid Waste Technician, Solid Waste Specialist, Junior/Assistant/Associate Engineers, Engineering Technicians, Land Surveyors, Code Compliance Investigators and Agriculture & Air Pollution Inspector.
A uniform allowance of four hundred dollars ($400) per fiscal year paid twice a year July and January each fiscal year will be provided for the purchase of prescription safety glasses, safety boots, a safety coat, shirts with a County seal replica, trousers, hats and gloves.
Employees in the Road Operations Division, Skilled Trades and Maintenance Division who require corrective lenses for the normal execution of their job duties receive reimbursement towards safety glasses every two years.
