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Contributors Comments
United Steel Workers of America Local 1-417 and CEP Local 10B recognizes that in facing the challenges of day to day life many members/employees and their families will experience serious personal and emotional difficulties. When these difficulties go unresolved they will often affect personal happiness, family relations, performance at work and even personal health. Most of these difficulties can be successfully resolved, especially when they are identified in their early states, and when referral is made to the appropriate kind of care. USWA and CEP Local 10B wishes to ensure assistance to all members and families in times of personal need through supporting the establishment of joint union/management Employee and Family Assistance Programs in many USWA and CEP workplaces.
An Employee and Family Assistance Program is an employee benefit program, supported and administered by both union and management. Employee and Family Assistance Programs provide all employees - active or retired - as well as spouses and dependents with confidential, professional assistance to help them resolve personal difficulties.
Members/employees and their families are able to seek assistance through the Employee and Family Assistance Program for a variety of personal and interpersonal problems: marital/relationship conflicts; parent/child conflict; psychological concerns (e.g. Stress, depression, grief, etc...); financial and legal concerns; and problems associated with the use of alcohol and other drugs.
The program promotes early identification of these potentially serious problems and is designed to allow employees and families to seek help on their own at the earliest possible opportunity.
USWA and CEP Local 10B believes that individual confidentiality is the single most important thing of any Employee and Family Assistance Program, and that the development of mutual trust is the foundation upon which union and management will succeed in building effective joint Employee and Family Assistance Programs.
Through experience USWA and CEP Local 10B has gained an understanding of what it believes are the essential elements in the development and ongoing administration of joint Employee and Family Assistance Programs. Our Policy Statement is supported by a set of Employee and Family Assistance Program guidelines and draft Employee and Family Assistance Program documents to assist our locals and sub locals in developing new programs, enhancing existing programs, and effectively maintaining their joint Employee and Family Assistance Program.
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