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Winter 2007, Vol. 3, No. 1 | Index
Message from the Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator
by Jane MacNeill
MBL EEO Coordinator
Foreign Affairs
While most of my articles focus on EEO matters as they pertain to national laws, this one has more of an “international” flavor based on my experiences over the past year as MBL’s Foreign National Coordinator.
First, I want to be sure that everyone is aware that, as of January 7, 2007, all persons, including U.S. citizens, traveling between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda by air are required to present a valid passport.
The Department of Homeland Security has also set the date of January 1, 2008, as the time by which all persons, including U.S. citizens, traveling between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda by land or sea will be required to have a valid passport.
This may be news to some of you who rarely travel and have never had a passport, but it will not be of any surprise to MBL employees who are here from foreign countries and regularly carry their passports with them. While their number is small, they are an active, enthusiastic group who form our foreign national community and meet several times a year to socialize and share their ideas about what it’s like to live in America.
With the help of Matt Person, Serials Librarian in the MBLWHOI Library, who serves as MBL’s liaison on WHOI’s International Committee, foreign national events in the upcoming year will focus on how Woods Hole can be made a more welcoming community to our foreign guests. They are very important members of our community, enriching our community both scientifically and culturally; I ask that you make every effort to help them feel as “at home” here as you would like to feel if you were working in a foreign country for the first time.
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New Employee Assistance Program
The MBL is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract, effective January 1, 2007, with The Wellness Corporation to provide Employee Assistance-Work/Life Programming. The Wellness Corporation was founded in 1984 and has a network of over 12,000 providers of counseling services. Their services include:
- Confidential assessment, counseling (up to three sessions at no cost to you) and referral services to help employees and their families deal with such personal problems as anger, grief, alcohol or drug use, domestic violence, eating disorders, marital or family relationships, depression, stress, work issues, budget and debt counseling and more;
- Access to the website, www.wellnessworklife.com which provides articles, on-line trainings, financial calculators and interactive videos;
- New parent transition coaching;
- Legal referrals and consultations;
- Work/life newsletters and referrals providing information on parenting, locating child/elder care, special needs, college preparation and planning; and
- Periodic on-site seminars
Explore how The Wellness Corporation can help you.
"Go to <www.wellnessworklife.com> and register using MBL (all caps) and get information on the topics listed above plus health issues, tax forms, pet care, sleep disorders, and a variety of other topics.
If you have any questions about this new benefit, please call Human Resources at x7422.
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