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Health Insurance Coverage Is Expanded (Continued from Page One) cost of only 40 cents per week for sin gle coverage and $1.10 per week for family coverage. These deductions will' be made au tomatically from your pay checks after July 1. Although the change will be automatic and will be based on whether or not the employee is presently signed up for family or single coverage, no one is required to continue the Group In surance package coverage. If any em ployee feels that he no longer wants the package, be may choose to sign a waiver card canceling all of his Group Insurance, and he, of course, would have no deductions made from his pay. Convenient Sign-Up No new sign-up will be necessary in order to obtain Major Medical cover age. Those now signed up for the basic package of insurance will automatically become eligible for the Major Medical insurance. To repeat, the type of cov erage you have under the Base Plan (whether the single or family plan) will determine the level of coverage you will be enrolled for. For example, if you have family cov erage before July 1, you will have fam ily coverage with Major Medical after July 1. An employee with single cov erage before will have single coverage under Major Medical after. In the case of salaried employees, there will be a few cases in which premium adjustments must be made. Since Major Medical is now part of the basic insurance package, it will come under the rule that any person employed by Fieldcrest, eligible for group insurance coverage, must carry the coverage on himself. That is, he or she cannot be carried as a dependent of another employee. This means that where working cou ples, one salaried and one hourly have previously been able to have the hour ly paid spouse covered as a dependent (along with children, if any), beginning July 1, the hourly paid working mem ber of the family must cover himself or herself. One of the two will undoubt edly want to continue family coverage in order to cover eligible children. Of course, if there are no children in a case like this, each would take single coverage which will be less expensive than one family coverage! Changes For Salaried Salaried employees will recognize immediately that although the deduct ible amount has been raised from $50 to $100, the basic rate of contribution has been retained and offsetting im provements have been made with the co-insurance percentage being raised from 75 to 80 percent payment of cov ered bills and with the maximum ben efit being raised from $20,000 to $25,000. Commenting on the July 1 changes. Haven Newton, vice president of in dustrial relations, said, “One of the first responsibilities of a responsible organization is to meet the legiti®® ® needs of its employees insofar as it ca’’ do so. “This change in Fieldcrest insurance coverage will insure that Fieldcres eniployees have available to them °ne of the finest packages of group ins®' ance that we know of anywhere in dustry. “Although no one can predict ho^ rapidly hospital costs may continue rise, we are glad that these new i®' provements will improve and stabm ^ the protection against disastrous boS' pital and medical bills for each of employees. The company intends to o everything in its power to continue keep the cost to each employee as 1° as possible.” Additional information will be in the new insurance booklet to distributed soon. In the meantime, if y ^ have any question about the new ® ckag®> vised part of your insurance pacK see your supervisor or your local dustrial Relations representative telephone the Fieldcrest Group ance Department in the General Off®® ' SAFETY Eden Chapter Of Secretaries’ Association Wins State Award The Eden chapter of the National Secretaries Assolciation (International) captured second place for its 1971-72 scrap book in the A division of state competition. The A division is comprised of chapters in North Carolina whose members num ber fewer than 25. The Eden chapter, which was organized in May 1969, has placed second in state-wide competition lor the last three years. The theme lor this year’s scrapbook was “Verses From The Garden Of Eden”. Co-chairmen for the scrapbook committee were Frances Pas chal, secretary to C. C. Wilson, assistant manager of employee benefits, and Mickey Overby, secretary to R. O. Endicott, man ager of industrial engineering services. Also serving on the committee were Ruth McLawhon of the Industrial Relations Department and Ann Wilson of the Kara- stari Rug Mill Industrial Engineering Department. Mrs. Wilson wrote the poetry that was used throughout the scrapbook. At right, Eden NSA scrapbook committee members are, left right, seated, Ann Wilson and Mickey Overby; standing, Ruth McLawhon and Frances Paschal. to THE MILL WHIS
The Fieldcrest Mill Whistle (Spray, N.C.)
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