The City will provide at no cost to unit employees off-the-job and on-the-job life and dismemberment insurance with a face value equivalent to the employee’s gross annual salary rounded up to the next one thousand dollars ($1,000) or twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), whichever is greater; in addition, the City will also provide death-in-the-line-of-duty insurance with a face value of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000).
It is understood between the City and the Union that any changes in life insurance benefits shall be effective on or about August 1. The designated beneficiary of a unit member will be paid for all accumulated sick leave hours that remain on the City’s official file at the time of a line-of-duty death of the unit member and payment will be based upon the unit member’s base hourly rate of pay at the time of death. The beneficiary shall be that person designated on the Employee Declaration of Beneficiary card for the City of Phoenix Group Life Insurance Program on file in the City Human Resources Department.
Additionally, the City will provide to each unit member a $200,000 death benefit covering the unit members commutation to and from his City work location. This policy will be consistent with the policy negotiated in 1997 with CIGNA Group Insurance, and will cover the unit member’s commute for up to two hours before his shift begins, and two hours after his shift concludes.
In the event of the death of a unit m ember while commuting to or from his work location, for a period of two hours each way, the City will continue to pay the full monthly health insurance premium for the spouse and all eligible dependents. This policy will be consistent with the terms of the 1997 agreement between the City of Phoenix and CIGNA Group Insurance, for the payment of a supplementary commutation life insurance policy for each unit member.
Effective January 1, 2009, the City will contribute six ($6) dollars per month per full-time employee (based on 3,043 full-time employees) to the union for establishing and offering a life/long term care insurance benefit to unit employees. These funds will be transferred to the union monthly and in a separate warrant. The union shall oversee the funds and administration of the program.
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