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Based on your employment status, you may be eligible for the following benefits.
We’re a wellness-driven organization who strives to make our employees’ lives as enriching as possible through a wide range of health and dental benefits.
Together, we make Alberta Blue Cross® a fun, challenging and inclusive place to work.
For both health and dental benefits, you can choose between three different plan tiers—Gold, Silver and Bronze—for a total of nine benefit plan options. The levels you choose will also determine the number of spending account credits you can direct to either your Health Spending Account (HSA) or Wellness Spending Account (WSA).
Your WSA assists you to pursue an effective level of health and wellbeing. Items covered include gym memberships, fitness classes, personal interest programs, child and elder care and much more. Your HSA covers health-related items approved by the Canada Revenue Agency. You have the option to allocate credits (if included in your plan selection) to either your WSA or HSA.
Following your first day orientation, you will be registered for an online benefits eLearn to gain additional information before selecting your benefits.
Employee Life Insurance: this benefit provides your dependents a degree of financial security in the event of your death. The principal amount of the benefit is two times your annual earnings, with benefits reducing 50 per cent at age 65, another 50 per cent at age 70 and ceasing at termination of employment.
Optional Employee Life Insurance: each employee covered by Life Insurance may purchase additional life insurance in units of $10,000 to a maximum of $300,000. The combined Employee Life Insurance and Optional Employee Life Insurance benefit cannot exceed $1,050,000.
Dependent Life Insurance: this benefit will be paid to the insured employee in the event of the death of an insured dependent. Coverage levels are $20,000 for spousal coverage and $10,000 for dependent children.
Accidental Death and Dismemberment: this benefit protects you in the event of accidental death or injury. The principal amount of the benefit is two times your annual earnings, with benefits reducing 50 per cent at age 65, another 50 per cent at age 70 and ceasing at termination of employment.
Optional Accidental Death and Dismemberment: each employee covered by Employee Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefits may purchase additional insurance in units of $10,000 to a maximum of $300,000. The combined Accidental Death and Dismemberment and Optional Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefit cannot exceed $1,050,000.
This weekly income benefit protects employees from the financial burden of short-term illness and is designed to replace earnings lost as a result of a medically-certified disability due to accident or sickness.
Long Term Disability plans are designed to provide you with a monthly income if you face a loss of income due to a lengthy permanent disability.
On your first day, you’ll be enrolled in the Local Authorities Pension Plan (LAPP). LAPP is a defined benefits pension plan, meaning that upon retirement, your pension will be a specified amount based on your salary and years of service, not how much you were able to contribute.
Your LAPP pension is predictable and protected against inflation; plus, Alberta Blue Cross® will contribute one per cent more than you. LAPP is optional for part-time employees. Visit lapp.ca for more details.
The Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) provides you and your dependents with short-term counselling services. Offered through Homewood Health, these services address issues such as work-related stress, family problems, bereavement and elder care. Your session with Homewood Health is completely confidential and you can contact them in the way that works best for you, whether it’s in-person, over the phone or online.
Your travel plan benefit protects you and your family with $5 million of coverage. Benefits are provided as the result of an accident or unexpected illness that occurs anywhere other than Alberta.
All eligible employees and their dependents have access to TELUS Health’s virtual care services. Virtual care allows you to connect with physicians and other health care providers online, so that you can get health care services from licensed Canadian providers conveniently, comfortably and securely.
Optional Critical Illness: this optional benefit offers wellbeing and financial stability during life-altering health challenges. Coverage ensures financial security without restrictions on how the funds are used. Whether you need to settle outstanding debt, make home renovations to accommodate new physical limitations or cover the cost of bringing home friends and family members in times of need, the choice is yours.
Coverage is available in units of $10,000 to a maximum of $250,000.
At Alberta Blue Cross®, we are firm believers in growing our people. One way some of our employees choose to grow is through further education. Our educational assistance program offers $4,000 a year to permanent full-time employees and $2,000 a year to permanent part-time employees. You can use these funds to pursue higher education, training programs and professional development courses.
We share in each other’s success at Alberta Blue Cross®. To recognize the contributions all our employees make to the company, we introduced the Employee Short-Term Incentive Plan (STIP) for all permanent employees.
STIP provides employees an annual targeted incentive of up to five percent of their base pay, based on corporate performance targets. STIP payment calculations are made in December and paid to eligible employees the following April. Updates on corporate targets are shared throughout the year.
All employees will receive a taxable work style allowance of $90 per month. This allowance will be paid every two weeks to all employees and will appear as a separate, taxable line item on pay statements. It can be used for any expenses related to your work style, including transportation to and from work, parking and at-home office expenses and more.
During your first 5 years with Alberta Blue Cross®, you are entitled to 15 annual vacation days. That number goes up to 20 vacation days after five years of service, 25 vacation days after 10 years of service and 30 vacation days after 15 years of service.
Life happens, and we want you to take care of yourself and your family when it does. Every full-time employee has up to 12 sick and family care days available to them each year; part-time employees are eligible for nine days.
Permanent new hires will be eligible for a $500 allowance to assist with setting up an at-home office (such as purchasing a new chair, desk and office supplies) that they will receive on their first pay. This is a taxable benefit.
We believe we have the potential and responsibility to impact people’s lives for the better. That’s why wellness is a significant part of our Blue For Life® vision. A meaningful pursuit of health and wellness allows Albertans to go further—to enhance their capacity to live, work, travel and play. Wellness looks different to everyone and at times it can seem overwhelming. That’s why at Alberta Blue Cross®, we give you the tools and resources to maintain all four pillars of your own personal wellness: physical, mental, social and financial. We want you to take care of yourself and ask for support when you need it. We are #heretohelp
On top of your regular breaks, every employee is encouraged to take one fifteen-minute wellness break a day. A wellness break is a chance to take some time for yourself. This could be participating in a quick meditation session, enjoying a walk or just sitting back for a relaxing coffee break.
Alberta Blue Cross® has its very own internal team focused on employee wellness. We rely on them for organizing ongoing wellness activities, but they go above-and-beyond by spearheading other wellness events throughout the year, such as wellness challenges, wellness lunch and learns and our annual themed Block party. During your onboarding, you will also have an opportunity to participate directly with the Wellness team by attending The Working Mind mental health training session.
Alberta Blue Cross®’s online wellness program, Balance, is a great resource to help you on your journey towards improving and maintaining your health and overall wellness.
Balance gets you started by taking small steps towards lasting change. For example, if you want to improve your diet, Balance can help you transition from unhealthy to healthy choices. Or if you find it difficult to keep track of your medications, Balance can gently nudge you with a friendly email reminder.
The summit wellness centre is our onsite fitness facility at our Edmonton office. Team members can take advantage of our studio class space, cardio room, weight and resistance training room, locker rooms and showers. We also offer instructor-led classes and registered programs depending on your preferences and style. Classes are virtual, in person or both depending on the session.
Each full-time employee is required to work a minimum of 7.5 hours a day. We offer flexible working hours and different work styles based on your role that allow you to build up time and take an Earned Day Off (EDO) every month.
Alberta Blue Cross® has parking stalls that are rented to Alberta Blue Cross® team members. Team members at our Edmonton office without specified stalls can use the daily parking option when needed which offers half-day and full-day options.
Our employees come from a wide variety of backgrounds and have a range of different hobbies and interests, so it’s not surprising they have a lot of knowledge to share. That’s why we started BLUniversity and YOUniversity, our in-house training programs designed to enhance our employee’s professional skills and personal interests.
BLUniversity is a series of courses focused on professional development. Anyone may join in, but as some sessions take place during business hours, just make sure you have your manager’s approval before signing up.
YOUniversity is a series of courses focused on personal interests and hobbies. These classes are taught by Alberta Blue Cross employees and typically take place over the lunch hour. Sessions in the past have covered topics like home composting, Instant Pot cooking, coping strategies and gardening. Have a topic you’re passionate about? Let us know! Our next YOUniversity class could be led by you.
Along with BLUniversity, we offer lunchtime workshops through our BLUshop program. BLUshops emphasize health and wellness through a hands-on approach. Each session introduces a different topic and host, many of whom are external to Alberta Blue Cross. Some of the topics we’ve covered before include Healthy Eating Habits by Homewood Health, Lung Health by the Lung Association and Ten Healthy Habits of Money Management by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta.
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