You are a valued member of the team. Thank you for your years of loyalty in the same role. However, Centene compensation policy has changed and if you are at the max in your grade level, the annual increase has stopped. As cost of living continues to skyrocket, health premiums increase, remembered you are valued!
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Strange views about holidays. Centene has added 2 holidays this year and one last year - MLK, Juneteenth, and Veterans day. I think adding those two to the front-end of the year made it easier to drop Good Friday, which is a far lesser Christian holiday -- nothing like Christmas, or even Easter for that matter.
For a few years now, you've had a floating holiday to use at your discretion (outside of other PTO) - Good Friday if you want, Rosh Hoshana if someone else wants . They say it's for religious or cultural holidays, but hey if National Hot Dog Eating day is important to you, you can use it there, or any other day of the year that you want.
If you donate $1 to the united way, they'll give you an extra half day - New Year's Eve solved.
I don't think they can stop doing cost of living increases unless it's across the board and well justified. I've been at companies that have done it, but it's rare unless things are truly falling apart.
The same employees promoted every year is common. Its also common that most are in that salary range that receives bonuses and do absolutely nothing to contribute to the growth or sustainability of their departments. This is a known fact. There is only so much the people that care can do, if you’re honest on surveys you’re retaliated against. The leaders are just running in circles. If employees are complaining about bullying, do you actually believe the aggressor doesn’t know who complains. The only option is to accept what they give or don’t give because eventually someone will think about all these complaints that weren’t addressed in the future and understand why the company is failing.
Respectfully the author of saying this is not new is incorrect. It has been shared in meetings with leadership for compensation this year. If you are at the max in your grade, there is no lump sum payment anymore.
This isn't new. If you're at the top of your pay grade, you will receive a lump sum of what you would potentially earn for the year, including overtime. Instead of getting an extra dollar or so after taxes on each paycheck, you will receive the full amount at once. If your raise is 5%, but you cap out at 3%, the check will be for the 2% difference.
I posted this to another old thread:
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For 2024, no more bonus, insurance went up, they took away holidays (remember good friday which became like spring holiday or something and then turned into a floating holiday and has now been fully taken away. Because it was a christian holiday? Is christmas next?) and now new years eve is down to a half day. When we first went home they said we were all getting an extra 100 for use of our personal phones and internet for work purposes and that only lasted 2 months of which i never saw (i checked) and then that turned to you had to submit a request for that reimbursement and only request it that then morphed into now you have to submit a copy of your bill to now even that's going away altogether. Our old building, most areas are turned off and restricted, saving on water, lights, not to mention no need to supply plates, plasticware, napkins, toilet paper or soap, copy paper, toner, office supplies. the list can go on and on. I also heard they were planning on renting out parts of the building. Now that people are no longer in the building, they're no longer needing to supply holiday meals as part of employee appreciation nor things they used to do like pizzas, donuts, breakfast tacos, etc or the employee appreciation day with the carnival like games (don't know what other regions got). Additionally, amid the highest point of covid cases, when texas froze and several places lost power, they initially paid out those days as office closure and suddenly the next paycheck it changed to covid something or other when the power outages had NOTHING to do with covid making me suspect that they realized they could get reimbursed what they paid out of company pocket by claiming some sort of covid related emergency since the government was doling out covid money at the time. Wondering if that's even legal but whatevs. Go back and check your paychecks for that time. Not sure if this happened across all of the Texas locations or just at our great state capital. Not to mention the layoffs that happened mid 2023. So cutting costs all over the place and maybe even possibly not quite legal maneuvers (speculation on my part as I don't know how the covid funding was meant to work) but yet, managers or whatever level and higher are NOT losing their bonuses.... I mean, what else to say. Wow. Just wow. I'm sure I've forgotten a few things. Feel free to add to the list.
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Now I'm seeing on this thread that raises are being capped? I have been here for several years doing the exact same thing for most of them despite the fact that everyone on the team is supposed to be cross trained. Prior to becoming remote, four people got moved up and since becoming remote, the same two people (different from those four) have moved up twice and they were already higher than the four that moved up and they've been the only ones. TWICE! People that were hired AFTER me on other teams in my department have also moved up and I'm still stuck in my same position and probably reaching that cap if I haven't already. This upcoming raise will tell. And just know, my evals every year are exceeds expectations so it's not a matter of my not doing a good job. I knew I had to leave this place for greener pastures but I didn't realize just how bad things really were here. I thought it was just me judging unfairly based on my assumptions and speculations. Time to buckle down on the job hunt. So disappointing because things weren't like this when Nierdoff (?sp) was in charge.
It appears to be sharing if you are maxed out in your current grade, annual lump sum that you got in previous years has been discontinued by the organization. No more raises unless you move to a higher grade level.
is this because of the forecasted decrease in earnings?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/earnings-preview-centene-cnc-q4-150058489.html
Is this why the same people are promoted to the next salary grade and others are not? So this postbis saying if you aren’t promoted to a higher salary grade, you are maxed out so …. Basically they promoted who we wanted to stay?
What is this?