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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
November 25, 2015
Honor Veterans Powwow and Parade
Jayson Smith photos.
The Honor Veterans Powwow
(above) was preceded in the
week by the Veterans Day
Parade (left).
Open Enrollment, Benefits Fair
Thank you to all who at-
tended the Open Enrollment
and Benefits Fair. Tribal
Government and enterprise
employees must turn in any
benefits changes, additions
and new enrollments to their
respective HR departments
right away.
Employees interested in
additional supplemental ben-
efits including Group Critical
Illness, Group Accident and
Group Voluntary Short Term
Disability (including preg-
nancy) will receive UNUM
enrollment kits this coming
week. Group rates make these
policies much more affordable.
Get all documents and kits
filled out and turned back in
to your respective HR de-
partment no later than De-
cember 17 at 5 p.m. to be-
come effective January 1.
Elizabeth Asahi Sato,
director, tribal Human Re-
sources
Fill out TERO skills survey
Individuals interested in
job referrals from the Warm
Springs TERO office can
come by the office and fill
out a skills survey.
War m Springs TERO
(Tribal Employment Rights
Office) is located at Con-
struction, at the industrial
park.
The skills surveys are used
when a contractor is looking
for workers. TERO refers
individuals based on their
work skills.
Potential workers sign in,
in person, or call in to let the
TERO office know they are
interested in working either
for construction or the
TERO office.
No one will be referred by
the TERO office without a
skills survey.
Individual Indian-owned
businesses that would like to
be considered for contract-
ing through TERO need to
fill out an application to be
certified as a Native-owned
business. Applications are
available at the TERO office.
For more information call
541-615-0853.
HealthComp, Managed Care
and HR working together
The day after the busy
Open Enrollment and Ben-
efits Fair, 25 Managed Care,
tribal HR, Kah-Nee-Ta HR,
Indian Head HR, WSFPI
HR, Housing HR and other
benefits specialists working
for the tribes met with Phil
Musson and Phil Soltau.
Phil Musson is president
and CEO of HealthComp.
Phil Soltau is the regional
sales manager. On hand for
the meeting was Tyler
Moore, vice president of
Mattecheck and Associates.
“It was a substantive day-
long training with a Q & A
session designed to better in-
for m and collaboratively
problem solve issues related
to the tribes self-coverage
plan,” said Elizabeth Asahi
Sato, tribal Human Re-
sources director.
“Since day one of my ser-
vice to the tribes, I have pur-
posed to do everything I can
to ensure all employees work-
ing in HR are collaborating
together and receiving as
much training as possible,”
Sato said.
“We can better serve our
nearly 1,500 employees if we
all come together to help one
another keep up to date on
important healthcare and ben-
efits issues. HealthComp and
Mattecheck and Associates is
deeply focused on serving the
tribes in every possible way,
and with that commitment
2016 will be an even better
year. We plan to meet quar-
terly to continue to work to-
gether,” shared Sato enthusi-
astically.
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