TUITION AID POLICTY

The Tuition Aid Policy has been revised effective April 1, 2010. The main changes are about employees taking credit courses through continuing education or a workforce development branch of a school without being enrolled in a degree plan. Also, in some cases schools have recruited employees into taking courses by offering them incentives for enrollment. This practice is strictly forbidden and the revisions to the policy refer to that prohibition.

Last, the revisions include process changes for CLEP and DANTES tests and portfolio review expenses in order to streamline processing when an online application is submitted.

CONTRACT BOOKS

The District was notifiied by AT&T, last month, that the contract books were still with the typesetter at the printers and a final proof was just about finished. At that time, the Company has to proof the copy and do the index. However, once the typesetting is finished,the Company will post an electronic version of it at the labor website, so employees will at least be able to view it electronically. They are anticipating the actual paper copies of the contract books will be available for distribution to all employees by the end of April.

FMLA IS GOING GREEN!

On 03-22-10, it was mentioned on our website that AT&T FMLA Operations was honoring Earth Day in a Green Way. Instead of receiving FMLA Status Notifications(FMLA5) by U.S. Mail employees will receive notification by email effective April 19, 2010.

Employees may receive notifications at work and/or their personal email address.

Anyone not already enrolled in the program will begin receiving FMLA notifications by email at their AT&T work email address. To self enroll prior to April 19th or to add a personal email address after April 19th visit https://intra.att.com/fmla/email via the intranet or https://www.e-access.sbc.com/intra att/fmla/email/ from home.

**IMPORTANT*** Employees who do NOT have regular access to email or DO NOT WANT TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATIONS BY EMAIL must contact HROneStop on 1-888-722-1STP or by sending an email to HRONESTOP-FMLA to be placed on a “Do Not Switch to email” list by April 16, 2010