Pollack details employee benefits and new NICE PPO health plan
Pollack describes OLR-administered benefits including health, deferred compensation, flexible spending accounts, IRAs, and union welfare funds, and highlights the new NICE PPO plan with an expanded retirement network and wider behavioral health network.
Beyond wage increases, we always lean heavily on the quality of our benefits to drive up retention rates to keep talented professionals in city service.
Our office, OLR, administers a robust employee benefit program for city employees.
It includes the health benefit program, deferred compensation plan, flexible spending account programs, which includes both health and dependent care accounts.
New York City employee individual retirement accounts and the management benefits fund for non-union employees.
Unionized employees also enjoy access to union welfare funds for supplemental benefits like drugs, vision, and dental.
Many unions offer additional benefits through other funds such as child care, legal representation, and annuity, all of which are funded by city contributions.
We are always striving to improve our benefits, especially our health benefits, most notably with the launch of the NICE PPO health plan earlier this year.
That plan retains the premium-free, high-quality insurance our employees have enjoyed while providing significant improvements.
Those improvements include an expanded network for those employees in retirement.
living out of state, an increased reimbursement schedule for out-of-network providers, and a wider behavioral health network.