TRADITIONAL BENEFITS

Medical Plan

Pride offers full-time regular employees and their covered dependents three comprehensive medical coverage options, Geisinger HMO, Blue Care HMO, and Blue Care PPO (exclusive to out-of-area employees). Features of our medical coverage include no annual maximum, no annual deductable (in-network), no referrals for Specialist care and $20 Primary Care Physician co-payment.  Each plan also includes a 3-tier prescription drug benefit program with mail order option.  Tier 1 prescriptions require only a $5 co-payment.

Monthly employee contributions are on a pre-tax basis and based upon the number of months of employment.  The rates after six months of employment are as follows:

Medical Waiver

Pride offers a medical waiver payment in lieu of medical plan benefits for employees who do not elect medical plan coverage.  Proof of other coverage must be provided in order for a medical waiver payment to occur.

Dental Plan

Pride offers full-time regular employees and their covered dependents two dental plan options sponsored by MetLife. Both plans provide coverage for preventive and diagnostic treatment. Other services require an employee co-payment.

Monthly employee contributions are on a pre-tax basis and based upon the number of months of employment. The rates after six months of employment are as follows:

Vision Plan

Pride offers full-time regular employees and their covered dependents vision insurance sponsored by Vision Benefits of America at group rates. Monthly employee contributions are on a pre-tax basis and based upon the number of months of employment. The rates after six months of employment are as follows:

Vacation Time

Vacations are important, not only to the employee, but also to Pride.  The company considers it wise and necessary to completely depart from the work environment periodically.  Full-time regular employees receive paid vacation on their anniversary date of hire as follows:

PTO – Paid Time Off

Full-time regular employees will receive the following:

Holidays

Full-time employees and part-time employees will receive paid time off for the following holidays:
New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Easter Holiday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.

New employees must work for at least 21 calendar days prior to the date of which a holiday falls in order to receive holiday pay. Also, employees must work the scheduled day before and the scheduled day after the holiday, or have leave time approved in advance in order to receive holiday pay.

Bereavement

Absence from work is a natural reaction to the death of a family member.  Pride will pay employees for up to 3 days away from work which employees would take for funerals and other personal needs relating to the death of a family member of the employee’s immediate family.  Immediate family is defined as a child, spouse, parent, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, spouse’s parent, spouse’s sibling, or child’s spouse.

Employee Assistance Plan

An Employee Assistance Plan is available to every employee (full-time or part-time) to provide advice and counseling during times of need. This service allows up to three one-on-one visits with a licensed professional per issue type.  This service is free, easy to access, and 100% confidential.

Life Insurance

Pride provides each employee with basic term life insurance. Employees have the option to purchase additional life insurance above the basic insurance amounts at group insurance rates.  Spouse term life insurance and dependent child term life insurance may also be purchased.

Pride provides each employee with basic accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.  Employees have the option to purchase additional AD&D insurance above the basic insurance amounts at group insurance rates.  Family AD&D coverage may also be purchased.

Disability Benefits

Pride provides a short-term disability plan for all full-time employees. Employees are able to purchase long-term disability insurance at group insurance rates.

Cancer & Specified Disease Indemnity Benefits

Pride offers a cancer and specified disease indemnity insurance policy to employees and their eligible dependents at group insurance rates.

Retirement Savings Plan

Pride offers a 401(k) plan to allow employees to save for retirement with pre-tax dollars.  Employees who have completed 6 months of service (with at least 500 hours worked) and have reached age 21 can contribute to Pride’s 401(k) plan.  Entry dates for the plan are the beginning of each month.  Employees can contribute from 1% to 99% of their salary.  Pride offers a company match of 50% on the first 2% of your contribution and 25% company match on the next 3-6% of your contribution.  Contributions can not violate the 401(k) limit set annually by the IRS.

529 Plan

Pride offers employees the chance to save pre-tax dollars for their children’s/grandchildren’s college tuition with a 529 Plan.

Tuition Reimbursement

Pride’s Tuition Reimbursement Program is designed to repay a portion of the tuition that is incurred when employees successfully complete pre-approved course work which is directly related to their current job assignment and is completed outside the normally scheduled work hours.  As an incentive, Pride will repay up to 75% of the cost of the tuition, depending on the employee’s final grade.  Employees must have 6 months of service to be eligible for the Tuition Reimbursement Program.

Credit Unions

All employees are eligible to join one of the many local Credit Unions that provide services to Pride employees. 

Holiday/Vacation Club

Pride offers an internally managed holiday and vacation club, which allows employees to receive twice the interest being offered by local banks.