• Time is running out to apply for student loan forgiveness under temporary PSLF waiver 

    Time is running out to apply for student loan forgiveness under temporary PSLF waiver 

    Updated October 7, 2022 — If you have federal student loan debt, look into your eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program today – a limited waiver...

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  • Carried-over vacation accruals: Use or lose in 2022!

    Carried-over vacation accruals: Use or lose in 2022!

    Employees with carried-over vacation accruals must use those accruals by December 31, 2022, or they will be forfeited. Employees may have banks of both carried-over vacation accruals and regular non-carried-over accruals.   This is because PEF...

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  • At operations command and on the digging line, PEF members helped fight Minnewaska State Park fire 

    At operations command and on the digging line, PEF members helped fight Minnewaska State Park fire 

      September 22 — It took eight days of suppression efforts for responders to knock down and contain the Napanoch Point wildland fire in Minnewaska State Park, a testament to...

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  • PEF Nurse Title Restructure Q&A October 2022

    PEF Nurse Title Restructure Q&A October 2022

    Questions and Responses Regarding October 2022 Nurse Restructuring https://communicator.pef.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/NurseTitleRestructuring.pdf  

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  • Executive Board discusses Convention, improving the dental benefit, and efforts to increase membership

    Executive Board discusses Convention, improving the dental benefit, and efforts to increase membership

    September 15, 2022 — The PEF Executive Board met September 8 and 9 in Albany, observing a moment of silence for those lost on September 11, 2001; deciding on a...

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  • Hundreds march in annual Albany Labor Parade

    Hundreds march in annual Albany Labor Parade

    It was a warm day and evening as hundreds of PEF and other union members marched through the streets of downtown Albany on September 9 in the city’s annual Labor...

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  • PEF Organizing is on the ground every day supporting and advocating for you

    PEF Organizing is on the ground every day supporting and advocating for you

    September 15, 2022 — Did you visit the PEF booth at the New York State Fair?  You weren’t alone.  More than 1,100 active members and retirees stopped by the booth...

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  • PEF tells state to include its professional employees in planning future services

    PEF tells state to include its professional employees in planning future services

    September 15, 2022 — PEF testified September 13 in Albany when the Assembly Committee on People with Disabilities held a public hearing on a draft strategic 5-year plan developed by...

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  • Celebrating Labor in Advance of PEF’s Annual Convention

    Celebrating Labor in Advance of PEF’s Annual Convention

    I hope every PEF member had a relaxing and engaging Labor Day!  It was great to see so many smiling faces at the Albany, Massena, Rochester and Syracuse parades.  We...

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  • Congratulations to this year’s Joseph Scacalossi Scholarship recipients 

    Congratulations to this year’s Joseph Scacalossi Scholarship recipients 

    September 15, 2022 — Paying for college amid record-high inflation got even harder as of July 1, 2022, when interest rates for federal student loans rose from 3.73 percent to...

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