Employee Benefits
This confidential program provided through ComPsych offers City employees and their household members up to 6 free counseling sessions per issue.
What is the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)?
This federal act protects an eligible employee's job for up to 12 weeks during qualifying family or medical leave.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
"One Chattanooga" refers to this strategic plan and vision established under Mayor Tim Kelly's administration.
What is the Strategic Plan for the City of Chattanooga?
Before elevating a workplace issue or grievance to higher leadership, an employee should first address it with this individual.
Who is theirimmediate supervisor (or direct manager)?
This 2-word phrase describes learning through play, exploration, and hands-on discovery rather than traditional lectures.
What is Active Learning (or Play-Based Learning)?
Basic Life and AD&D Insurance premiums are fully paid by this entity for all full-time City employees
Who is the City of Chattanooga?
The ongoing, two-way dialogue between an employee and HR to determine a reasonable workplace modification is called this type of process.
What is the Interactive Accommodation Process?
One of the core priorities of the One Chattanooga Plan focuses on closing gaps in this community sector to improve health outcomes across zip codes.
What is Public Health?
This term describes the formal step-by-step reporting line that structure communication and authority across City departments.
What is the Chain of Command?
This daily routine transition strategy uses songs, visual timers, or movement to help children move smoothly between activities.
What is a Transition Strategy?
This third-party administrator handles the City’s leave management, including short-term disability and FMLA claims.
Who is Symetra?
To initiate a medical accommodation request under the ADA, the employee and their medical provider must complete these forms.
What are the Accommodation Request Form & Medical Certification Form?
The One Chattanooga Plan places heavy emphasis on building a universal path to this critical educational stage for local youth.
What is Early Learning (or Early Childhood Education)?
Discipline that gradually increases in severity—starting with verbal counseling before moving to written warnings or suspension—is known as this.
What is Progressive Discipline?
This council, made up mostly of current Head Start parents, gives families a direct voice in program governance and decision-making.
What is the Policy Council?
Employees who participate in the General Pension Plan become eligible for Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage after this many days of continuous employment.
What is 180 days?
True or False: FMLA leave guarantees that the employee will be paid full salary by the City throughout their absence.
What is False? (FMLA provides job protection; pay depends on accrued paid leave or disability benefits).
A major strategic pillar of One Chattanooga aims to increase this type of residential access for all Chattanoogans across the city.
What is Affordable Housing?
Before formal disciplinary action like suspension or termination takes effect, an employee is typically given this opportunity to respond to the charges.
What is a Due Process (or Pre-Disciplinary) Hearing?
Head Start was launched in this decade as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s "War on Poverty.
What is the 1960s (1965)?
Unless an employee experiences a qualifying life event, changes to their benefit elections can only be made during this annual period.
What is Open Enrollment?
Medical documentation submitted for FMLA or ADA accommodations must be kept in this type of file, away from standard personnel records.
What is a separate/confidential medical file?
The overarching mission of the One Chattanooga initiative is to ensure that all residents can do this in the city.
What is "thrive"?
What is the full name of Head Start Standard of Condouct Policy
WHAT IS THE- DISCIPLINARY ACTION FOR THE VIOLATIONS OF THE STANDARDS OF CONDUCT
Head Start focuses on the "whole child," which means providing education, health, nutrition, and this type of family support.
What is Social/Emotional (or Comprehensive) Services?