Employee Benefits
Freed-Hardeman University offers a very competitive benefits package. Please click on any of the links below for more detailed information.
Benefits Start Date
Health and Wellness
Retirement Savings
Time Away from Work
Extra benefits
Discounts
Life Style Coaching with BCBS
Benefits Start Date
Effective March 1, 2008 a change has been made to our benefits program. When a new full time employee is hired, their benefits will be effective on their date of hire. When an employee terminates, their last day of active employment is the last day of their coverage. As an example, when a person begins working on March 8 their benefits will become effective March 8. An employee whose last day of work is May 20 will have coverage until midnight of that night. For those of you who may be interviewing and hiring new employees, please make note of this change. If you will be leaving FHU in the near future, please also be aware of this.
Health and Wellness - Medical Insurance
Two plans offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of TN - Lifestyle Coaching
Lifestyle Coaching
Lifestyle Coaching How It Works
Lifestyle Coaching PowerPoint Presentation - Dental Insurance
Comprehensive coverage through Blue Cross Blue Shield - Vision Insurance
Coverage provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield - Flex Spending Account Plan
Allows you to use pre-tax dollars to cover medical, dental, and certain other expenses. - Health Savings Account (HSA)
Allows you to deposit pre-tax dollars into a savings account to accrue for certain medical expenses. Available with High Deductible Health Plans. - Life Insurance
We provide each employee with $20,000 life insurance with the option of purchasing more at a low rate. - Short and Long Term Disability
Short Term Disability offered to employees after their first full year of service is completed. Long term disability insurance provided for the employee. - FHitness for U Wellness program
A comprehensive wellness program that aims to encourage employees to become healthier emotionally, spiritually, financially, and physically.
Retirement Savings - FHU Retirement Plan
FHU works with two providers, ING and TIAA-CREF, to provide retirement plans to its employees. FHU will match contributions up to 4% of the employee's annual salary. Participation is mandatory as of employee's start date.
Time Away from Work
- Vacation
1st year of employment: 10 days
5th year of employment: 15 days - Holidays
19.5 paid holidays - The holidays for the 2011-2012 fiscal year are as follows:
Independence Day - Monday, July 4th, 2011
Labor Day - Monday, September 5th, 2011
Week of Thanksgiving - Monday, November 21st to Friday, November 25th, 2011
Christmas Break - Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at Noon - Friday, December 30, 2011 (Reopen on Monday, January 2nd)
New Year's Day - Observed as apart of Christmas Break for 2011-2012 fiscal year
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday - Monday, January 16th, 2012
Spring Break - March 19-23, 2012. Offices will be open all week with skeleton crews. Each employee will be given three days off.
Memorial Day - Monday, May 28, 2012
- Sick Leave
Offered to non-exempt staff employees - Maternity Leave
6 weeks of paid time off - Paternity Leave
5 days of paid time off - Mission Leave
5 days of paid time off to perform mission work
Extra benefits - Tuition Remission Program
The employee and the employee's spouse and children may receive complete tuition remission for undergraduate classes and 50% tuition remission for graduate classes. - On-site Doctor, RN and campus clinic
Free to employees and their dependents - Free access to the FHU Fitness Center, 25 yard swimming pool, and a walking track and raquetball courts located in the Brewer Sports Center.
Discounts - Several businesses in Henderson and Jackson offer FHU employees special discounts.