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To: Blue Shield HMO and POS Plan Participants
From: Human Resources
Date: January 7, 2002
Subject: LOMA LINDA PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS

Effective immediately, employees who have medical coverage through Blue Shield HMO or POS can sign up with any of the Loma Linda primary care physicians connected with the Physicians Health Network Medical Group.

Your coverage continues the same as with any medical group, in that the medical group administration entity will authorize all specialty referrals. The Loma Linda primary care physicians who are now contracted to Physicians Health Network Medical Group will refer patients to specialists who are also contracted within the Physicians Health Network Medical Group, or the medical group may authorize a referral outside the group. If a specialist happens to be a Loma Linda specialist who is not contracted with the Physicians Health Network Medical Group and the medical group approves it, then the services will be covered.

A list of primary care physicians can be obtained from Human Resources by e-mailing Maggi Foster at margaret_foster@redlands.edu. To change your primary care physician, simply call Blue Shield's Member Services at (800) 837-4481. This number is also listed on your Blue Shield identification card.

If you have any questions, please call Human Resources at extension 4040.


To: All Eligible Full-Time Faculty
From: Chris Deyo
Date: January 23, 2002
Subject: Faculty Research Grants

Applications for Faculty Research Grants for academic year 2002-2003 are available. Please let me know if you would like one. Completed applications are due in the Academic Affairs Office no later than March 18th.


To: Campus Community
From: Help Desk
Date: January 28, 2002
Subject: Virus Alert

We have received reports of a new piece of virus known as "W32/Myparty". The virus sends itself to all addresses listed in an infected user's Windows Address Book. This worm arrives as an email message with the following characteristics:

Subject: new photos from my party!

Message body:

Hello!

My party... It was absolutely amazing!
I have attached my web page with new photos!
If you can please make color prints of my photos. Thanks!

Action:

  • If you have received this message, DO NOT OPEN IT.
  • Please delete this e-mail message immediately from your "Inbox" as well as the "Deleted Items" or "Trash" folder.
  • Please continue to update your anti-virus.
  • Call the Help Desk at x4357 if you have any problems.


To: Campus Community
From: EEO Office
Date: February 1, 2002
Subject: New Employment Laws: 2002

Directors, Managers, and employees that supervise should be aware of new legislation that governs the workplace beginning January 1, 2002.

AB 025
AB 25 expands benefits to unmarried domestic partners in the areas of employment rights, adoption rights, inheritance and conservatioship rights, and the right to make medical decisions and sue for wrongful termination. It allows a domestic partner to collect unemployment insurance if h/she leaves a job to relocate with the other domestic partner. AB 25 allows domestic partners to use accrued, available sick leave to care for an ill domestic partner or the child of a domestic partner, and allows domestic partners to make disability benefit claims on behalf of a domestic partner who is mentally unable to make the claim.

AB 04
Effective October 2002, this law requires convicted sex offenders to register with Public Safety and local law enforcement officials when they enroll in classes or begin working at a University. At a minimum, this applies to students, employees, faculty, volunteers, and contractors. A recently passed federal law (HR 3244) requires that States track convicted sex offenders who are "employed by, take classes at, or pursue a vocation at postsecondary institutions." The federal law requires Universities to inform students about how they can learn the identities of convicted sex offenders on their campuses. Universities that fail to do so will be treated as criminal offenders.

AB 800
AB 800 limits an employer's ability to adopt or enforce English only policies in the workplace. To lawfully enforce such a policy, the employer must show that the restrictions are justified by business necessity and show that the employer has notified all employees of the times and places where the restrictions must be observed. Business necessity is defined as "an overriding legitimate business purpose such that the language restriction is necessary to the safe and efficient operation of the business."

AB 1025
AB 1025 requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations and reasonable break time for women to express breast milk at work. Break time for an employee that exceeds rest time authorized by Wage Order 5 is unpaid. AB 1025 requires that employers make reasonable efforts to provide the use of a room, other than a toilet stall, for employees who wish to express milk. AB 1025 requires that the location be close to the employee's work area and be private.

Should these issues arise, we encourage directors, managers, and supervisors to contact the Office of Human Resources for assistance.





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