THE PURPLE ONES

No. Not the Prince tribute band. Although, if you never saw Prince live, you really missed out.
So, who am I talking about? Who are the purple ones?

The politically agnostic and the people who are not afraid to think for themselves.

Like us.

For example, one of the things people like us support is labor-friendly policymakers and statesmen, regardless of party affiliation.

VERY SCARY

Halloween is this Thursday. I hope you have completed your costume, and you have already picked up the candy.

Wait. What? You are going to use last year’s costume and going to be handing out NECCO wafers?

Uggghhhhh! First, no kid wants NECCO wafers.

HRA DEBIT CARD FAILURES

A significant change within the HRA provision of the Health and Benefit Fund was recently announced. If you did not read that notice, or read it earnestly, go back and do so.

Regarding the participants that were identified within that notice, you will be issued new cards.

50%

Fifty percent of all Defined Contribution account holders still have not secured their account at Empower. If you fall into the group that has not taken care of securing their account, you need to get on the ball and take care of this right away. Listed below are three ways in which you can accomplish that.

Labor Day

“E PLURIBUS UNUM”

Ah…, Labor Day. The last hurrah before the seriousness of the fall and winter overtakes us.

Sadly, that is what too many people focus upon around the end of summer. Not sure why that is as the name of the holiday implies that this is a day to celebrate the working American citizen and what they have accomplished.

S.O.H or S.O.L?

The general consensus is that if you want to know if you owe a shortage of hours payment or when it’s due, you read the shortage of hours’ notice that the Fund Office mailed out.

However, did you know that there are people who neither read their mail nor open their mail in a timely manner?

Yes.

What’s Also New

For those that may have not noticed, Community Healthcare System has rebranded their non-acute location based and/or hospital-based health centers, as well as their Stroke and Rehabilitation center to, …..., drum roll please ……. “Powers Health.”

With that said, Community has reported that their hospital facility, specifically, Community Hospital, St. Mary Medical Center and St Catherine Hospital will not be part of their rebranding initiatives.