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Benefit Changes for 2023
As noted in the October open enrollment presentation, benefit time will change beginning in January 2023. Full-time employees will be granted time off based on the schedule outlined below. (Benefit time is based upon years of service attained during that year. Example: If your 5-year anniversary is in October, the amount of benefit time awarded to you would be 22 days in January of that year.)
Years of Service Benefit Time
1–4 years 17 days + additional 4 floating days
5–9 years 22 days + additional 4 floating days
10–14 years 24 days + additional 4 floating days
15+ years 27 days + additional 4 floating days*
*Will also accrue an additional day per each odd year of service. This will cap at 32 days with the additional 4 floating.
Floating days include: birthday, HRA and two additional days per calendar year.
Benefit time can be used at any time during the year.
Employees can carry over up to 15.50 hours in 2023.
Floating days cannot be cashed out or rolled over.
The payout maximum will be five days in 2023.
Remote Options
Monday and Friday—work from home; Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday—in office
Employees have the option of working remote the week of Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Two weeks of remote flex work will be available:
At manger discretion based on LOB needs
Must be in good standing with no performance issues
Must take in weekly increments
Cannot carry over or accrue
Will log time in Ultipro
NCMIC Holidays (2023)
New Year’s Day
Martin Luther King Day
Memorial Day
Juneteenth (new!)
Independence Day
Labor Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving
Day after Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
NCMIC Goes to the Dogs
NCMIC’s second Bring Your Dog to Work Day was held on Tuesday, Oct. 25. Employees were visited by three pups: Dannie, a Labrador/Border Collie mix, owned by Valarie Fouts; Beans, a mutt, owned by Zach Myers; and Bailey, a mini Bernadoodle, owned by Sheena Mahan.
The next Bring Your Dog to Work Day will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Remember, if you’d like to bring your dog to a future dog day, sign up is required in advance and only three dogs are allowed onsite at a time.
Halloween Winners Announced
The 2022 NCMIC Halloween Spooktacular was held on Thursday, Oct. 27. Costumes were not required but boy, did you deliver! Winners of the costume contest are:
Best Individual
Sugar Townsend, “Sugar Daddy”
Best Group
“J-Lab” – Melissa Knutson, Amy Albright, Jessica Wright, Layla Kapic, Angela Lopez, Brendon Snell and Michelle Ramos
Best Pumpkin
The winner of the pumpkin carving contest was Martha Reuter.
Upcoming Events/Important Dates
Nov. 15 – Bring Your Dog to Work Day
Nov. 16 – Salad bar, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Nov. 16 – Mental Health Awareness Lunch & Learn, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Rooms 122/123
Nov. 17 – November Employee Recognition, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m., Rooms 122/123
Nov. 23 – Office closes at 12 (United Way half day)
Nov. 24 & 25 – Thanksgiving (Office closed)
Nov. 30 – Salad bar, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Dec. 7 – December Employee Recognition, 9:30-10:30 a.m., Rooms 122/123
On the Move
New Hires
Brian Bainbridge – Merchant Deployment Representative
Promotions
Chloe Challenger has been promoted to Underwriter
Transitions
Hannah Felt has transitioned to an Account Coordinator
November Milestones
Anniversaries
Keith Henaman, 28 years
Lisa Logan, 25 years
Heidi Welter, 15 years
Jennifer Highland, 12 years
Shanna Patrick, 10 years
Rachel Bergez, 5 years
Edina Ricketts, 5 years
Victoria Ozimek, 3 years
Tyrone Tyler, 2 years
Eric Simpson, 1 year
Birthdays
1 – Mindy McNew
5 – Terry Venteicher
12 – Dan Zimmerman
19 – Amy Wilkinson
20 – Alex Duong
Kim Meggers
21 – Debbie Rasley
Renae Tyler
24 – Marisol Hernandez
26 – Tim Rowley
27 – Justin Ewald
Mike Whitmer
29 – Tony Ranniger
30 – Eric Brown