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Administration
Update Your Information with Your HR Office
As we continue to try and keep ourselves and families safe during this time, it’s also a good idea to update your information with your Human Resources Office, especially your beneficiary information.
You should also inform the Employees Retirement System (ERS) if there are any changes There have been an employee divorced and remarried, and their insurance and retirement benefits could not be distributed to their current spouse or children.
By: Rey Domingo
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to your beneficiaries.
Contact ERS at (808) 586-1735 on Oahu or (800) 468-4644 ext. 61735 from the neighbor islands.
Prior to your retirement date, you must fill out and submit the form, Spousal/Civil Union Partner/Reciprocal Beneficiary Notification Form (https://ers.ehawaii.gov/wp-content/ uploads/2012/02/ERS-182-Spousal-orReciprocal-Beneficiary-Notification-201803-1. pdf). If you recently married or had a new child that you want covered under your benefits, be sure you inform the Employers Union Trust Fund (EUTF) through your HR Office so that your new family member is covered.
You have 45 days from the date of marriage and 180 days from the birth of a child to notify EUTF or you will have to wait until the next open enrollment season.
If you don’t change your beneficiary or you remarried and don’t have your current spouse listed, your benefits may go to someone other than who you wanted. Your current mailing address and phone number ensures you receive paperwork you will need.
Contact your HR Office today to give them an update.
Administration
Stress Reduction Presentation Offered to All Employees
By: Melanie Martin
Topic: STRESS BUCKET IN THE TIME of COVID.
Presented by HMSA. Open to all employees regardless of health plan affiliation.
Date and time: Wednesday, June 17. 10 am - 10:45 am
Description: Each of us has a limited amount of stress we can “hold” before overflow occurs. In recent weeks, the number of stressors coming at us has rapidly increased. Knowing how to manage and “drain” this stress is crucial in preventing high blood pressure, anxiety, depression, and other health afflictions. Join us and realize simple (and often enjoyable) ways to lower the volume of stress in your “bucket.”
Please be sure to get approval from your supervisor before registering.
Registration required. Click on the link to signup: https://www.surveymonkey.com/ r/5QLY99B
By: Chris Takeno
The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation along with seven other applicants (Norwegian Cruise Line; The Princeville Resort Kaua‘i; Kaua‘i Marriott Resort; Kaua‘i Coffee Company, LLC; Sheraton Kaua‘i Resort; County of Kaua‘i; and Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.) are working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) and Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natu- ral Resources (DLNR) to protect federally and state listed endangered native species of Hawaiian Petrel (‘ua‘u), Newell’s Shearwater (‘a‘o), Band-rumped Storm-petrel (‘akē‘akē), and Green Sea Turtle (honu).
The listed birds species are vulnerable to light attraction, particularly during their post-fledging departure from the breeding colony site. Fledgling seabirds (and some adults) may become confused or disoriented and suffer extreme fatigue when attracted to artificial lights. This is followed by descent and slowing of flight, and ultimately “fallout” by landing on the ground, or colliding during flight with structures which may injure or kill the bird. Grounded seabirds can suffer injury, starvation, or predation. Honu and their hatchlings may become disoriented by artificial night time lighting near the shoreline.
A key milestone was accomplished with the approval by the USFWS of the Kaua‘i Seabird Habitat Conservation Plan (KSHCP) on May 26, 2020. The KHSCP provides guidance on the following activities to minimize the injury or harming of listed species:
