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Work-Life Balance Programs
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| 2012 Local Camps | Location |
| Baiting Hollow Scout Camp | Baiting Hollow |
| Brookhaven Country Day Camp | Yaphank |
| BERA Recreation Programs | BNL |
| Camp Pa-qua-tuck | Center Moriches |
| Girls Scouts of Suffolk County | Bayport |
| Harbor Country Day School | St. James |
| Hofstra Summer Camps | Hempstead |
| Patchogue/ROE Summer Day Camp | Holtsville |
| Peconic Dunes Summer Camp | Riverhead |
| Raynor Country Day School Camp | Westhampton |
| St. Joseph's College - Children & Young People Programs | Patchogue |
| Stony Brook School Summer Programs | Stony Brook |
| Suffolk County Farm & Education Center | Yaphank |
| Summer Camp at Stony Brook University | Stony Brook |
Employees can charge sick days (SFM) to care for a seriously ill or injured family member for up to 5 occasions per payroll year (December 21 to December 20 of the following year). For more information, please go the Sick Leave for Care of a Family Member section in the Employee Handbook.
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) allows "eligible" employees to take job-protected, unpaid leave, or to substitute appropriate paid leave for up to a total of 12 weeks in a 12 month period. FMLA leave will be granted for the birth of a child, adoption or foster care of a child, to care for a family member (child, spouse or parent) with a serious health condition, or due to the employee's own serious health condition. For more information, please go to the Family and Medical Leave Act section of the SBMS.
Brookhaven offers two flexible spending accounts, the health care account, to help you offset rising medical costs, and the dependent day care account, to help you with day care costs. These accounts allow you to allocate pre-tax dollars from your paycheck to cover eligible out-of-pocket health care or dependent day care expenses. For more information, please go to Flexible Spending Accounts.
The Laboratory provides eligible employees financial assistance for certain expenses related to adoption of an unrelated minor child. For more information, please go to Adoption Assistance.
An Information Guide is available to you to help ease the transition of relocating to Long Island. Topics included are: cost of living; buying or renting a home; schools in the area; childcare; transportation; obtaining a driver’s license; taxes/financial matters; and quality of life. For more information, please go to the Relocation Guide.
BERA promotes and regulates Laboratory-wide recreational and social activities at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Activities include athletic competition, cultural, and social activities. Facilities include the gymnasium and weight lifting complex, swimming pool, tennis courts, Recreation Park (athletic fields and gazebo) and the Recreation Hall. (More)
BREA represents retiree interests and benefits; builds closer
community ties between Brookhaven National Laboratory and its
neighbors; creates a newsletter providing communication with retired
employees; encourages activities for social interaction in the
retirement community, and establishes volunteer efforts to assist in
fund raising for the benefit of charities and local communities. (More)
Once a year, BNL participates in Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day and this year’s activities took place on Thursday, April 26, 2012. This event was for girls and boys, ages 10 -14, where they spend time in the morning with their parents in the workplace and take tours of various areas on site in the afternoon. Registration is required for participation in the afternoon program. For more information, call Liz Gilbert on Ext. 2315, email gilbert@bnl.gov or Ernie Tucker, Ext. 5735, email tucker@bnl.gov.
Last Modified: May 2, 2012
Please forward all questions about this site to:
Elizabeth Gilbert
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