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Survey Dealt With Family Issues at SLU
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More than 1,400 faculty and staff responded to a survey from human resources regarding family issues. The results are in and have been tabulated.
During the fall of 1998, the Family Issues Committee distributed a survey to all full-time University employees that included sections for demographic data, family and medical leave issues, dependent medical insurance, dental insurance, flexible scheduling, child care and opinions on funding priorities.
The survey had two goals:
To convey information through the survey about benefits and policies already in place.
To gather concerns of current University employees that could be referred to the human resources department for further study.
Among the findings of the survey:
Family and medical leave: Forty-six percent of employees were unaware of the existing policy/benefit on caregiver leave. Twenty-three percent had taken advantage of this benefit. Seventy-one percent of survey respondents indicated that they would welcome some form of leave pool for catastrophic situations.
Dependent medical insurance: Many respondents (45 percent) had no dependent children. But of the 775 respondents who did have children, 37 percent were covered by spouse insurance programs, and 17 percent chose to enroll them outside the SLU programs because of cost concerns.
Dental insurance: Although a majority of respondents (53 percent) were enrolled in the SLU dental programs, 29 percent did not participate because of the high cost or concerns about the provisions of the existing plans.
Flexible scheduling: The FIC learned that 71 percent of employees were unaware of this existing policy/benefit, and 15 percent have at least attempted to use it at some time.
Child care: Consistent with the theme running through the results, a majority of respondents (66 percent) were unaware of the University arrangement with the Child Day Care Association; 10 percent had made us of the service. Respondents were most vocal on this issue. Thirty-six percent would like to see an on-site facility.
Funding priorities: Assuming that the benefits office could be given additional funding for benefits improvement, respondents rank-ordered the choices as follows, from highest priority to lowest: increasing the retirement (70.6 percent), reducing medical plan payroll deductions for dependent coverage (47.5 percent), adding a new dental plan to allow any dentist to provide services (42.3 percent), increasing University-paid life insurance (23.5 percent) and providing a subsidized on-campus child care facility (20.2 percent).
Members of the Family Issues Committee were Dr. Denise Chachere, Debra Farmer, Sandra Pritt and Gwen Asher.
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