¹ Workers Compensation, Unemployment, Virginia Short-Term Disability, and VRS Life Insurance.

² New benefits are back up child and elder care and educational benefits.

Highlights of benefits include:

-- Health Care: Includes not only medical insurance but also prescription, dental, mental health services, and discount vision program.

-- Retirement Plan: U.Va. offers employer-paid participation in the Virginia Retirement System.

-- Supplemental Optional Life Insurance

-- Tax-Deferred Savings Plan: The University of Virginia offers an optional savings program that allows employees to tax-defer income and invest for the future. University will match contributions at 50% up to $40 per month to either the University's 403(b) plan or the Commonwealth's 457 plan.

-- Virginia Sickness and Disability Program: The University provides employees with both a short-term and long-term disability plan in addition to sick leave and family and personal leave to eligible employees.

-- Generous Annual Paid Leave plus 12 paid days off on all University holidays.

-- Flexible Reimbursement Accounts: The University of Virginia offers two types of reimbursement accounts — one for medical expenses and one for dependent care — that are exempt from personal income tax.

-- Faculty and Employee Assistance Program: The University also offers employees confidential counseling and referral services for emotional and financial problems.

-- Occupational Health Services: The University of Virginia’s Occupational Health Services functions to prevent illness and injury among employees, promote good health practices, treat a limited number of illnesses and injuries occurring on the job and refer employees to a source of continuing health care.

-- Education Benefits: Under the Education Benefits Program, benefits-eligible employees with one year of benefits-eligible service have access to $2,000 per calendar year. The Program covers education and professional development as well as non-credit courses. Courses taken during the work day require supervisor approval.

-- Backup Care Options for Child and Elder Care are provided to employees to address temporary breakdowns in regular child, adult and elder caregiving arrangements. The employee pays a low daily copayment for the services which can either be provided at a center or in-home.

-- Career Services: Career service offerings are available to University employees at no charge. These includes workshops on topics ranging from job searches to retirement planning.
http://www.hrs.virginia.edu/Career/ECSWorkshops.htm

-- Career Training and Development: Continuously improving skills and knowledge is essential for effective performance in current and future jobs. U.Va. offers a wide variety of training and development activities to support our valued employees' learning. Some of the newest offerings include Essential Workskills, Hoos Managing the U.Va. Way, and the Supervisory Essential Certification Program.

— Sept. 17, 2008