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Planned Retirement Program for Administrative, Professional and Non-Union Classified Employees
he Board of Trustees recently approved a special Planned Retirement Program for Administrative, Professional, and Non-Union Classified employees on September 22. In case you are interested in the program, please read the following information.All eligible full-time employees may submit an ...
Compensation Statements
Full-time employees received compensation statements last year to demonstrate the total value of pay and benefits received from Highland. These were produced manually and based on the fiscal year. Per the Union’s request, the statements were only provided to non-union employees. ...
COVID to Calm
Elizabeth Priller, RN, BSN, will be conducting a live virtual seminar on Friday, October 2 at 11:30 a.m. (approximately 40-45 minutes in length) for HCC employees titled From COVID to Calm: How to Cultivate Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty. In ...
Reminders from the Emergency Response Team
Masks are required in common areas (i.e. hallways, lobbies, classrooms, meetings) - Masks are not required outside when social distancing can be practiced - Masks not required when alone in your office - Establish habit of wearing a mask Self Monitor Do you have a ...
COVID-19 Situation Analysis Training
The College’s Emergency Operations Team (EOT) continues to work collaboratively with supervisors, faculty, and staff to maintain safe campus operations. As a result of discussions within the EOT meetings, several scenarios have been developed in order to assist faculty and ...
YMCA Open Enrollment
HR Cougar Corner Full-time employees recently received an email on how to complete their open enrollment for the YMCA through ADP. Due to the situation with COVID-19, Highland held off on conducting open enrollment for the YMCA this spring. It is ...
Reminder Concerning Flexible Spending Prior Fiscal Year Balances
HR Cougar Corner If you have a balance in your Flexible Spending Account for last fiscal year (previously contracted through SISCO), you can still submit claims up through September 28. The claims must have been incurred in the period of July ...
Retirement Benefits
HR Cougar Corner As we have previously communicated, changes are coming to the SURS Self-Managed Plan (soon to be called the SURS Retirement Savings Plan) as of September 1. If you are SMP member and would like additional information about the ...
Open Enrollment Survey Results
HR Cougar Corner A survey regarding employees' open enrollment experience was administered to benefit eligible staff/faculty following our first virtual open enrollment for health, dental, vision, flexible spending and critical illness/injury insurance at the end of May/beginning of June. To minimize ...
Changes to the SURS Self-Managed Plan
HR Cougar Corner As previously mentioned, the Self-Managed Plan will be changing starting September 1. For those employees who are members of the plan (soon to be called the SURS Retirement Savings Plan), you should have received a packet of information ...