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. From now on 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. A person who begins working on March 8 will have their benefits 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
Lifestyle Coaching
- Dental Insurance
Comprehensive coverage through Humana Dental
- Vision Insurance
Coverage provided by Humana Vision
- Flex Spending Account Plan
Allows you to use pre-tax dollars to cover medical, dental, and certain other expenses.
- 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. Click here for more details.
- FHitness for U Wellness program
A comprehensive wellness program that aims to encourage employees to become healthier emotionally, spiritually, financially, and physically.
Retirement Savings
- TIAA-CREF Retirement Plan
FHU will contribute a generous 7.5% of the employee's annual salary as long as the employee contributes 5%. Participation is mandatory after three years of fulltime employment. Click HERE for more specific information.
- The Center for Gift and Estate Planning at FHU provides free financial planning services to FHU employees. We also will provide you with a $300 will drafting service if you have need of a will.
Time Away from Work
- Vacation
1st year 10 days
5th year 15 days
- Holidays
12.5 paid holidays:
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Remaining holidays for the 2008-2009 fiscal year:
Week at Thanksgiving, November 24-28, 2008
Christmas; Half a day on Tuesday, December 23rd. December 24 through January 2, 2009
Martin Luther King Jr Holiday, January 19, 2009
Spring Break, Three days off during the week of March 16-20, 2009 to be decided with the supervisor of the department.
Memorial Day, May 25, 2009
- Sick Leave
Offered to nonexempt 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 our employees and their dependents
Discounts
- Several businesses in Henderson and Jackson offer FHU employees special discounts.