Family Friendly Programs

• Adoption Assistance Program
• Benefits
• Blood Drives
• Brookhaven Employee's Recreation Association (BERA)
• Brookhaven Retired Employee Association (BREA)
• Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS)
• BSA Scholarship
• Child Care Council of Suffolk
• Child Development Center
• Domestic Partner Benefits
• Elder Care Resources
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employer Assisted Housing Program
• English for Speakers of Other Languages
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical and Dependent Care)
• Flexible Schedules
• Gorman-Metz Scholarship
• Health Promotion Program
• Maternity/Paternity Guide
• Occupational Medicine Clinic
• Shuttle Van (SBU/BNL)
• Sick Family Member (SFM)
• Summer Camp (BERA)
• Take Our Children to Work Day
• TeleWork

Sick Family Member (SFM)

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.

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

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.

Flexible Spending Accounts

Medical & Dependent Care

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.

Adoption

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.

Relocation

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.

Brookhaven Employee's Recreation Association (BERA)

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)

Brookhaven Retired Employee Association (BREA)

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)

Take Our Children to Work Day

Once a year, BNL participates in Take Our Children To Work Day.  These events are for girls and boys, ages 10 - 14, where they will spend time with their parents in the workplace, listen to talks about careers at Brookhaven, and take tours of various areas on site. This year's activities will take place on Thursday, April 25, 2013.  For more information, call Liz Gilbert on Ext. 2315, email gilbert@bnl.gov  or Ernie Tucker, Ext. 5735, email tucker@bnl.gov.  

Last Modified: April 10, 2013
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One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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