Benefits
PCC offers a comprehensive benefit package designed to provide employees and their families, including domestic partners, with a broad range of employer and employee paid benefit options.
Eligibility
- Full and Part-time Classified, Managerial, Academic Professional, and Confidential employees: eligible for the benefits listed below, unless otherwise indicated.
- Full-time faculty: eligible for the benefits listed below unless otherwise indicated.
- Part-time faculty: eligible for Health Insurance Trust Fund, Group Medical Benefits (those who meet established eligibility criteria), and other benefits marked with single asterisk (*).
- Casual employees: eligible for retirement, Oregon Savings Growth Plan (457 Plan), Tax Deferred Annuity Plan (403b Plan) and OnPoint Community Credit Union.
Enrollment
For medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment, and long term care insurance, you must enroll online in MyOEBB in the specified enrollment time frame. For enrollment in other benefits, see the sections below.
- New employees: you will be assigned the Benefits Orientation Course in MyCareer@PCC (MyPCC arrow right Employee tab arrow right Visit MyCareer@PCC). After completion of this course, you will be entered in MyOEBB where you will complete your enrollments or opt out of coverage. A Q&A session will be available on completion of the course for follow-up questions. You must enroll in or opt out within 31 days of becoming eligible.
- Open enrollment: enroll or make changes to your current benefit plans during the open enrollment period, August 15 to September 15.
- Mid-year changes: certain qualified status changes, such as the birth of a child, adoption, marriage, newly formed domestic partnership or loss of other coverage may permit insurance enrollment. You must notify Benefits and enroll within 31 days of the event.
- Domestic partner benefits
Paying for benefits
PCC makes a monthly contribution (“the cap”) toward health insurance premiums. The cap amount is determined by the tier of coverage you choose for your medical plan and is pro-rated by FTE for part-time employees. Cost sheets contain detailed information for all benefits-eligible employees.
Summary of benefits
Health and dental
- Medical, prescription
- Dental
- Vision
- Cost sheets
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)*
- Opt out incentive
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)*
- Long term care*
- COBRA
Refer to the HIPAA privacy notice for information on how medical information about you may be used and disclosed, and under what circumstances it is classified as protected information.
Group life and disability
Retirement and financial matters
- Retirement*
- Oregon Savings Growth Plan, 457 Plan*
- Tax Deferred Annuity, 403(b) Plan*
- U.S. savings bonds
- Credit union membership*
- Homeowner and auto insurance*
- Group legal*
- Cash Awards for Suggestions that Help (CASH)
Leave and time off
- Vacation and sick leave* (refer to contracts)
- Holidays, personal time & emergency leave
- Leave of absence*
- Employee Leave Bank Program**
Tuition assistance
- Tuition reimbursement*** (for classes at other institutions)
- Tuition waiver* (for classes at PCC)
- Public service loan forgiveness (PSLF)
College facilities
- * Part-time faculty inclusive
- ** Part-time and full-time Classified and Academic Professional only
- *** Not available to any part-time employee