TOP-BENFT: Synopsis of Benefits for
Trinity Forge Employees
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REV:08/04/09To make you (the employee) aware of the benefits of being an employee at Trinity Forge, we have prepared this summary of benefits. This synopsis provides only general information and there may be additional requirements besides those listed. To determine actual legal rights and obligations, refer to actual plan documents. For any situation not covered, the CEO or President will make a final decision. These benefits are subject to changes, additions or deletions that can occur at any time without notice. For final authority always refer to the "Trinity Forge Operating Procedures" (TOPs) on the Internet. You are encouraged to check the bulletin boards regularly for important notices and other announcements. For more basic guidelines about being an employee at Trinity Forge see TOP-GUIDE. If you have any questions about these benefits contact the Human Resource office at (817)453-6638 or (817)995-9391. SENIORITY Seniority: “Seniority” is based on your date of hire at Trinity Forge. The longer you have been employed at Trinity Forge the more seniority you have. Benefits are vacation time and service awards that are given out for certain intervals of employment (2, 5, 10, 15, 20 years etc.). See the “Vacations” section under “Benefits after One Year” for more information. Seniority within Department: Seniority within each department is based on the perceived ability to do a higher job. The primary uses of seniority within each department at Trinity Forge are bidding for day/night shift work and bidding for vacation time. An employee, who is moved or hired into a department, may have superior abilities because of education and/or previous experience and even though new to the department will have seniority within that department. For example: Jerry Jackson has worked in the Machining Department for 6 years. He has worked in all phases of machining parts including Q.C. checks on all parts. He has excellent math skills and a strong ability for using all types of measuring equipment. Jerry was moved from the Machining Department to the Q.C. Department to strengthen that department. At a later time, someone had to be moved from that department to the night shift. The supervisor looks at every member of the department and moves the one he considers to be the best candidate to go to nights. Jerry might not be that candidate, because others in the department might be less qualified and subject to be moved to nights. This would be done at the discretion of the supervisor, and the decision would best serve the interest of the company. Seniority and Promotion: Seniority is one of the aspects of each employee we take into consideration when promoting employees and filling empty job slots. But we also take into consideration other factors like attitude and special abilities. We strive to promote, advance and move to different shifts employees whose performance is superior in each position. The following is an example of how promoting is decided: Joe Smith has worked for the company for 15 years. He has not made much progress in bettering himself. He has a bad attitude and has not been a good team player. On the other hand, Tom London, has been on the job for 4 years and has been very enthusiastic and very helpful and a good team player. He has been very positive and has increased production in both quantity and quality. Tom London would be better qualified for promotion. BENEFITS FROM DATE OF HIRE 401k Investment & Employee Stock Ownership Plan: You become eligible to make salary deferral contributions for retirement starting on your first day of employment. You become eligible to receive matching contributions starting on the November 1 or May 1 on or after you have worked at Trinity Forge a year. Automatic Enrollment makes the process easy with 4% of your payroll being withheld automatically. Voluntary Employee Injury Benefits Plan:If you are injured on the job, you are eligible for certain medical and wage compensation. For specific information see TOP-INJRY. Jury Duty Leave: If you are called to serve jury duty, Trinity Forge will pay the difference between the jury pay and straight time pay for the number of hours that your shift worked the day you were on jury (Provided you bring the jury duty forms and a copy of the check given to you for jury duty). For example, if your wage was $8.00 an hour and your department worked 10 hours then your pay would have been $80.00. If the total jury pay was $6.00, then Trinity Forge would pay you $74.00. BENEFITS AFTER PROBATIONARY PERIOD Health Benefits: After 180 days of employment, full-time hourly employees become eligible for health insurance. For more information see TOP-HTHCP. Mini-Med Policies will be made available through payroll deduction to help bridge the gap during this period. Uniforms: After you’ve been employed 90 days, if you chose to buy your uniform instead of rent it, Trinity Forge will pay $2.00 of the cost for each uniform, but you will have to pay the remainder. Education Benefits: If you are a full-time employee and have been continuously employed by Trinity Forge for more than 90 days, you can be reimbursed 80% of the amount that you pay for books, tuition and required fees if you complete one or more college courses with a passing grade. The classes that you complete must be pre-approved by your supervisor or manager and must be applicable to either your present or future team position at Trinity Forge. To be reimbursed, you must submit receipts and passing grades with your request for reimbursement. You will not be reimbursed by Trinity Forge for transportation, parking fees or other fees that are not required. Holidays: In order to receive holiday pay, you must have been employed at Trinity Forge 90 days before the holiday and must work both the day before and after the holiday if you are scheduled to. If you would like to make your holiday longer then you must use vacation time for the extra days. The requirement to work before and after the holiday may be waived with approval of your immediate supervisor and the concurrence of the supervisor's manager, but only in unusual extenuating circumstances. Part-time employees will receive 4 hours pay for each holiday provided they work at least 20 hours per week. Full-time employees will receive 8 hours holiday pay unless the hours they work including holidays totals less than 40 hours per shift. In that case only, the employees in the affected shift will receive 10 hours holiday pay. In no case will any holiday pay exceed 10 hours. The following is an example of why an employee would receive 10 hour holiday pay instead of the normal 8: Bob Hopkins’ shift is scheduled to work on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Christmas is Friday. His shift worked 8 hours on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but only worked 6 hours on Thursday. Since his shift only worked a total of 30 hours from Monday to Thursday, his holiday pay for Christmas will be 10 hours. This is so he gets paid for a 40 hour week. At Trinity Forge there are 11 paid holidays per calendar year. 7 of these holidays are preset (New Year's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Day) and 4 are floating holidays. For the Forge and Machine Divisions these floating holidays will be decided by a majority vote by all employees in each of the two divisions through a ballot. The night shift will receive an additional holiday on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve as part of their shift premiums. In departments that typically need to work during floating holiday periods, particularly Maintenance and Shipping, management may select certain employees to have floating holidays under the "Corporate Office" method (see below) so that they will be available to work during the floating holiday blocks. For employees in the Corporate Office the individual employee may chose their own floating holidays subject to the approval of their immediate supervisor. Management reserves the right to restrict the number of people who may choose to be off any given day, to require that floating holidays be spaced apart, or to close the office on any given day. Unused floating holidays may not be carried over past the first quarter of the following year. The last payroll before Christmas will include all holiday pay through December 31. The January 1st holiday will be included on the first payroll of the next year. When separating from the service of the company, there is no payment for any holidays remaining in the calendar year. Short-Term Disability Benefits Plan: For more information on benefits in the event of a disability caused by an illness or injury outside of work see TOP-STDBP. BENEFITS AFTER 1 YEAR Vacations: You become eligible for 1 week paid vacation (40 hours) after your first year of service, 2 weeks paid vacation after 3 years, 3 weeks paid vacation after 10 years and 4 weeks paid vacation after 25 years. Only 15% of the employees in any department are eligible to be off work for vacation at the same time. Seniority within department (see description at top of page) will determine who receives preference for desired vacation times assuming the employee with the most seniority within the department isn’t asking for more than 2 weeks of vacation at one time. The further in advance you request time off for vacation, the more likely it is that the department can make the proper arrangements. A change in vacation dates is allowed assuming the new vacation time does not conflict with the 15% rule. Another possibility to keep in mind is that you can trade vacation dates with another employee in the same department. The Supervisor and/or Manager of a department will have final say on requested time off for vacation. The following is an example of the 15% rule: A certain department has 13 employees, and two employees have already been scheduled to go on vacation during the week of July 7. A third employee wants to be off the same week, but will not be able because this exceeds the 15 percent rule for that department. Vacation benefits for rehired employees:
Part time employees do not qualify for any vacation time. Any employee who is off of work for an extended period of time will not accrue vacation time for the time that he/she is off of work. Any accrued vacation time will be paid at the time of termination of employment. Family & Medical Leave: For more information on family and medical leave see TOP-FMLAP. IDEAS Trinity Forge believes that its people are its most valuable resource. For the purpose of stimulating and encouraging its employees there is a suggestions program for employee suggestions (see TOP-IDEAS). |
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