What You Need to Know: Our Employees’ Union and Terms of Employment

Howard Brown has competitive pay and bases compensation on verified market data for community healthcare employers in the Chicago area.

Any alterations to current wages/salary shall be bargained in good faith with the union for positions covered by the bargaining unit.

Non-exempt employees receive time and a half (1.5) of their regular hourly rate of pay for any hours worked beyond 40 in a work week or for more than 12 hours in any day.

Patient or client-facing employees scheduled to work from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. or on Saturdays or Sundays earn an additional +$2 per hour.

Patient or client-facing employees whose position requires the use of Spanish receive an additional +$.50 per hour after completing a language proficiency assessment.

Howard Brown offers quality employer-sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance subsidized at or above market.

• Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) HMO, PPO and PPO Select Plans with premiums set based on income level.
• HMO single plan is 94% employer-paid for individuals whose annual earnings are at or below $51,000.
• BCBS Dental premium = $13.00/month
• EyeMed Vision premium = $6.52/month

BCBS short-term and long-term disability

Howard Brown offers a 401k plan through Principal and matches the first 5% of employee’s contributions toward their 401K retirement saving account.

Employees are eligible after just 90-days.

• Employer-paid life insurance valued at their annual salary
• Voluntary Life Insurance

• BCBS Voluntary Life and AD&D
• BCBS Accident and Critical Illness Coverage
• MetLife Hospitalization Coverage
• Commuter and Parking Pre-Tax Deduction
• Flex Spend Account (FSA) and FSA Dependent Care

• 10% discount at all Kindercare locations and 3 Kindercare backup days per year for every Howard Brown employee (no need to be enrolled in Kindercare to access backup days).
• $300 employer-paid YMCA Camp Fun tuition credit for direct dependents of Howard Brown Health employees.

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year
• Charting Your Course Program (3 free sessions with a career coach and tools to create a career development plan)

0.75 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) providers receive a Continuing Medical Education allowance:

• Medical and Psychiatric Providers: $3,000 per year
• Dental Providers: $3,000 per year
• Behavioral Health (excluding psychiatry): $1,500 per year

Full-Time:

• 0-4 years tenure: 3 weeks per year
• 5-10 years tenure: 4 weeks per year
• 10+ years tenure: 5 weeks per year

Part-Time:

• 0-4 years tenure: 60 hours per year
• 5-10 years tenure: 80 hours per year
• 10+ years tenure: 100 hours per year

• Full-time: 6 days per year
• Part-time: 3 days per year

Employees are able to utilize PTO Exchange to cash in accrued vacation and personal time (over 80 hours) for cash, 401k contribution, student loan payment, charitable contribution, hotel/airline reservations, or to donate time to a colleague.

• Full-Time: 12 accrued sick days per year
• Part-time: 6 accrued sick days per year

(9) paid holidays each year:

• New Year’s Day
• Martin Luther King Day
• Memorial Day
• Juneteenth
• Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Day after Thanksgiving
• Christmas Day

(Brown Elephant Stores have a different Holiday Schedule)

Those who have been employed full-time with HBH for over (1) year qualifies for Parental Bonding Leave where Howard Brown will pay up to 4 weeks of salary.

When a death occurs in an employee’s immediate family, the employee will be allowed a maximum of three (3) paid days off per event to arrange for and attend the funeral.

Employees reporting for jury duty will be compensated with up to ten (10) days of paid jury duty leave over any twelve-month period at their regular rate of pay for time missed.

Set for three years by contract and separate memorandum of understanding

Howard Brown offers quality employer-sponsored health, dental, vision insurance subsidized at or above market.

• BCBS HMO, PPO and PPO Select Plans with premiums set based on income level.
• HMO single plan is 94% employer-paid for individuals making up to $51k.
• BCBS Dental premium = $13.00/month
• EyeMed Vision premium = $6.52/month

Dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance employee assistance, and optional extend accident, life, and transportation benefits

Covered by Howard Brown policy, see details above

Covered by Howard Brown policy, see details above

Covered by Howard Brown policy, see details above

Full-time: 4 hours/pay period; Part-time: 2 hours/pay period

0-4 years: 120 hours/year; 5-10 years: 160 hours/year*

Full-time: 6 days/year; Part-time: 3 days/year

Covered by HBH policy, see details above

After 40 hours per week

Covered by HBH policy, see details above

Covered by HBH policy, see details above

Covered by HBH policy, see details above

Covered by HBH policy, see details above

Evening hours: additional $2.25/hour
Weekend: additional $2.00/hour

For nurses scheduled to work from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. or on Saturdays or Sundays.

Additional $1.09/hour for employees who use a language other than English regularly for purposes of their employment.