Insurance benefits:

  • Aflac Insurance Benefits: For our members who are trying to get pregnant, you may consider signing up for the disability and hospital stay plans through Aflac Insurance Benefits. You may pay insurance premiums for about 12 months.  In the end, Aflac may pay you a thousand or more than what you paid for the insurance.  Please note you need to have this insurance before you get pregnant and the insurance may differ for each individual.
  • Paycheck Deductions: You would need to sign up for the Coalition of California State Workers deducts the monthly insurance premiums from your paycheck which is very convenient (see attached membership application).
 
Maternity/Paternity Leave benefits:

Some highlights of the leave benefits under the current MOU.

  • NDI-Family Care Leave is now available to all PECG members (rank and file and supervisors and managers) enrolled in the Annual Leave program.  This important benefit provides up to 6 weeks of 50% wage replacement (which can be supplemented to 75% or 100% with employee annual leave credits) to bond with a newly arrived child (through delivery, adoption, or foster care).  
  • For employees who give birth, NDI-Family Care Leave picks up where Enhanced Non-Industrial Disability Insurance (ENDI) leaves off: ENDI covers pregnancy, delivery, and recovery periods as documented by a medical provider.  NDI-Family Care Leave provides bonding time after recovery. 

  • NDI-Family Care Leave can also be used to care for an ailing family member.  Importantly, NDI-Family Care Leave is provided at no cost to all Unit 9 employees.

Please see CalHR’s website here for additional information about the program.  For more details about this groundbreaking benefit negotiated by the Bargaining Team as part of the 2022-25 Memorandum of Understanding, please see Article 4.14. Still have questions?  Email pecg@pecg.org or call your local PECG office for assistance.