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- Thursday Nights on the Square: Thursday Nights on the Square - 38315 9th St. East, Palmdale, CA - July 6 through September 7 from 5:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
- The Antelope Valley Fair: August 25th through September 4th, Antelope Valley Fairgrounds, Avenue H and the Antelope Valley Freeway
- Starlight Concert Series: Select Saturday nights through September 16th at Palmdale Amphitheater at Marie Kerr Park, 2723 Rancho Vista Blvd., Palmdale
- Palmdale Fall Festival: Saturday, October 14th, 9:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, October 15th, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Marie Kerr Park, 2723 Rancho Vista Blvd., Palmdale
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We’ve talked before regarding how we train our employees about being safe while on the job and the safety milestones celebrated by our facilities, but what is Waste Management doing to protect the total health of our employees? Much like any other employer in Los Angeles County, we want to make sure our employees and their families stay healthy and have access to healthcare providers who can help them do this. And just like every other employer, during the last five years we’ve watched health care costs go up over 50 percent. Last year, the annual premium for an employer health plan covering a family of four averaged nearly $11,000.
At Waste Management, we are proud to be a leader in the fight for wellness, lifestyle incentives, and cost management. We currently pay more than 80 percent of the total cost of medical coverage for our employees and their families (over 100,000 people in total throughout North America) – coverage that is well above the norm for private employers. But keeping this commitment becomes more difficult with each passing day.
We recently introduced a Build Your Own Plan design as the basis of our consumer-focused approach to health care. Build Your Own delivers two types of consumerism: (1) at point of enrollment when the employee/spouse has to think through the level of coverage that is really necessary, and (2) at point of care where they will change their buying patterns.
We give our employees the opportunity to choose affordable plans they can tailor to their individual requirements – a process similar to purchasing automobile insurance. Employees can “buy up” or “buy down” benefits that allow them to spend their total compensation in a way that fits their family’s specific health care needs.
In today’s economy and health care environment, increased cost sharing at the point of care has become critically important. Without an employee financial stake in the fight to keep health care costs down, current benefit levels are simply unsustainable in the long run. The evidence is overwhelming that cost sharing through plan design that affects point of care decisions reduces health insurance premiums substantially.
Just like any other employer, Waste Management’s goal is improving the length and quality of life for our most important asset – our employees and their families – and we hope the measures we are taking, with the partnership and support of our employees in these endeavors, will ensure we achieve this goal.
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