• Your list of 2025 legal holidays all in one place!

    Your list of 2025 legal holidays all in one place!

    For your convenience, below are the 2025 observed legal holidays for eligible state employees.    Wednesday, January 1: New Year’s Day  Monday, January 20: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day  Wednesday,...

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  • NYC Health and Hospitals hearing focuses on the impacts of potential SUNY Downstate Hospital closure

    NYC Health and Hospitals hearing focuses on the impacts of potential SUNY Downstate Hospital closure

    October 31, 2024 — The campaign to save SUNY Downstate is nearly a year old, and although PEF, other unions and members of the NYC clergy have worked to halt...

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  • Enrollment opens Nov. 1 for HCSA, carryover details explained

    Enrollment opens Nov. 1 for HCSA, carryover details explained

    October 30, 2024 — The open enrollment period for the Health Care Spending Account (HCSA) benefit begins Nov. 1, 2024, and ends Dec. 9, 2024.  The HCSA allows you to...

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  • Enrollment opens Nov. 1 for Dependent Care benefit

    Enrollment opens Nov. 1 for Dependent Care benefit

    October 30, 2024 — If you pay for childcare, elder care, or disabled dependent care, you may be able to set aside pre-tax money in a Dependent Care Advantage Account...

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  • Kudos to hurricane volunteers from PEF

    Kudos to hurricane volunteers from PEF

    October 2017 — PEF President Wayne Spence knows firsthand what it is like to survive the wrath of Mother Nature. On October 29, 2012, Super Storm Sandy made his home...

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  • Don’t leave money on the table: Unsatisfactory performance evaluations can be appealed

    Don’t leave money on the table: Unsatisfactory performance evaluations can be appealed

    October 29, 2024 — If you receive an unsatisfactory rating on your year-end performance evaluation, and you feel it was unfair, inaccurate, or the process was not properly followed, you...

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  • Extra accruals? PEP might be for you!

    Extra accruals? PEP might be for you!

    October 29, 2024 — If you have extra accruals consider using them to help pay your health insurance premium by taking advantage of the Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP).   PEP...

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  • Don’t leave these valuable contractual benefits on the table!

    Don’t leave these valuable contractual benefits on the table!

    October 30, 2024 — As a PEF member, there are several pre-tax benefits you may be eligible for, including the Dependent Care Advantage Account (DCAA), the Health Care Spending Account...

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  • Six new Executive Board seats filled in October Special Election

    Six new Executive Board seats filled in October Special Election

    October 29, 2024 — Six seats in the October 2024 Special Election for PEF’s Executive Board have been filled. Balloting is required for four additional contested seats. Additionally, five seats...

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