Personnel employed by the Government of Guam on a full time/*part-time basis are entitled to the following benefits: 

1. Government sponsored Retirement Plan.  A rate of 5% is deducted from bi-weekly gross earnings 100% matched by GMHA. *

2. Health and Dental insurance.  Employees of the Government have two (2) or more different Health and Dental insurance plans to choose from.

3. Life insurance:  Employee may elect life insurance coverage after six (6) months of consecutive services to enroll in the Supplemental Life Insurance Program, at which time employee will be covered for the Basic non-contributory insurance plan ($10,000.00) paid for by Gov-Guam.  Part time employees who work at least 20 hours per week are entitled to life insurance coverage after completion of the six-month probationary period. Please visit the Personnel Office to see the current rates for supplemental life insurance coverage. *

4. Sick Leave:  Employees accrue 4 hours every pay period employee is on paid status for the entire 10 days.  There are 26 pay periods in a year, a total of 13 days accumulated sick leave per year.

5. Annual Leave:  Employees accrue 4 hours every pay period employee is on paid status, with less than 5 years of service; 6 hours for employees with more than 5 years of service as amended by Public Law 27-05.

6. Night Differential:  Pursuant to Public Law 27-29, all employees are entitled to night differential pay, calculated at the rate of their regular wage plus ten percent (10%), for all periods worked between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., provided they work a minimum of four (4) consecutive hours within that time period.

7. Leave Sharing Program:  Public Law 22-10 provides the Government of Guam Employees the advantage to voluntarily give their annual or sick leave to another Government Employee needing the same in accordance with the procedures and guidelines established for the Leave Sharing Program for Voluntary Transfer of Leave.

8. Maternity Leave:  Maternity leave is granted to a female employee occupying a permanent position who is absent from work as a result of childbirth.  Such maternity leave shall not exceed twenty (20) days encompassing the date of childbirth.

9. Paternity Leave:  Paternity leave shall be granted to a male employee occupying position upon the birth of child or children and not to exceed twenty (20) days of paid leave encompassing the date of childbirth.

10. Jury Duty:  Employee shall be excused for jury duty with full pay without charge to annual leave provided the employee shall show call or notification to his/her employer and turn over all monies for jury duty to the Hospital Comptroller.

11. Bereavement Leave:  Bereavement leave shall be granted upon the death of an immediate family member and shall not be charged to annual leave and not to exceed two (2) days.  Please refer to the Administrative Manual regarding meaning of immediate.

12. Credit for Military Service:  An employee may be eligible for credit for active years of service in the Armed Forces of the U.S. for leave purpose based on honorable service and if she/he is not receiving retirement annuity or pension as a result of such military services.

13. Legal Holidays:

·         Christmas Day………………………….   December 25^th

·         New Year’s Day ……………………….   January 1^st

·         Memorial Day  …………………………   Last Monday in May

·         Independence Day  …………………….   July 4^th

·         Liberation Day  ………………………..   July 21^st

·         Labor Day  …………………………….   1^st Monday of September

·         All Soul’s Day  ………………………..   November 2^nd

·         Veteran’s Day  ………………………..    November 11^th

·         Thanksgiving Day  ……………………    4^th Thursday in November

·         Our Lady of Camarin Day ……………    December 8^th  

14. Employee Health Benefit:  Pre-employment PPD, drug screening, urinalysis and blood work are   provided by the Hospital.  Pre-employment physicals are to be done with your primary physician and is not covered by GMHA. *

15. Worker’s Compensation:  For work related injury or illness. *

16. Parental Involvement:  This will allow four (4) hours every two (2) pay periods of administrative leave to parents to readily confer with teachers and school officials concerning their children. *

ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: 

1. Receive an additional twenty-five percent (25%) Specialty Pay for actual hours worked. *

REGISTERED NURSES/LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE: 

1. Week-end Pay:  Nurses that worked from 12 Midnight Saturday to 12 Midnight Sunday shall be compensated at a rate of one and one-half (1 ½) times the nurse’s straight time.

2. Double Time:  Hours worked beyond twelve (12) hours will be paid at a double time.
3. Holiday Work:  Nurses that worked the holiday will be paid double time and a half.
4. Certification Pay:  Additional 15% Certification Pay will be given for those nurses that have National Certification (i.e. CCRN, CEN, NCC, etc.) working in the area of specialty.
5. Mandatory educational requirements are provided (i.e. Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatrics Advanced Cardiac Life Support, etc.)

GRADUATE NURSE: 

1.       Must be a recent graduate and take the NCLEX within six (6) months of graduation.

2.       Must have a current permit as a Graduate Nurse to practice from the Guam Board of Nurse Examiners. 

OFF-ISLAND HIRE: 

Government of Guam shall pay for one-way airfare transportation from point of hire to Guam of the person recruited and his spouse and dependent children and for not more than Two Thousand Five Hundred (2500) pounds of household effects (no portion of the household effects allowance shall be used for the transportation of a motor vehicle), pursuant to Title 4, GCA §6501

 "GMHA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER"                     

 *Please Call or Email our Personnel Department for More Information.....

    (671) 647-2171, (671) 647-2409 or Email Liz Claros - Human Resource Administrator