Mesa Presents Lifetime Medical Advantages to All Eligible Metropolis Staff
Mesa, AZ – Mesa is providing lifetime medical advantages for all eligible full-time workers, efficient Jan. 1, 2023. Entry to lifetime medical insurance coverage protection provides to Mesa’s already aggressive salaries and advantages bundle, permitting the Metropolis to recruit and retain proficient workers who wish to construct a profession within the public sector.
“The Mesa Approach has all the time been to care for our workers by providing aggressive salaries and advantages to allow them to care for themselves and their households,” mentioned Mesa Metropolis Supervisor Chris Brady. “Bringing again the lifetime well being advantages is an extension of our concentrate on the well being and wellness of our workers. It begins with free major and pediatric care at our worker Mesa Well being and Wellness Middle and continues with medical protection as soon as our workers have retired from Mesa.”
Lifetime advantages aren’t new to Mesa. The Metropolis supplied this profit to eligible workers earlier than Jan. 1, 2009, when the Metropolis needed to minimize $62 million from the Common Fund, eliminating lifetime advantages for brand new hires. In the present day’s announcement ensures everybody employed since can obtain lifetime medical protection after finishing 20 years of service with the Metropolis, with no less than ten consecutive years of employment with the Metropolis instantly earlier than retirement. Moreover, workers have to be retired from the Metropolis of Mesa to be eligible for post-retirement medical insurance.
“The Valley is experiencing a really aggressive job market,” added Mr. Brady. “We purpose to recruit people dedicated to public service and reward those that have devoted their skilled careers to serving Mesa residents and companies.”
As with present workers, the Metropolis covers 80% of eligible retirees’ insurance coverage premiums for medical, dental and imaginative and prescient protection. Mesa at present has greater than 2,200 retirees receiving retirement medical advantages. Roughly 70% of Mesa’s practically 3,900 full-time workers have been employed since Jan. 1, 2009, and might be eligible for retirement medical advantages beginning in 2029.
