General - For All

• What Right to Work Means
• 2022 Benefit Plan Limits and Thresholds
• 2022 IRS Standard Mileage Rates: (used to calculate the deductible costs of operating a car, van, pickup or panel truck for business, charitable, medical, or moving purposes)
  • Standard Mileage Rage .58.5¢ for business use
  • Charitable Mileage Rates .14¢
  • Medical or Moving Rates .18¢
• Resources for Laid-off and Financially Troubled Members
  • "Help, I Lost My Job!"
  • How to Prepare for a Possible Layoff
  • General information related to Unemployment Insurance
  • Career One Stop

Working Women:

• Women Experience a Wage Gap in Nearly Every Occupation
• Break Time for Nursing Mothers
• New York State Women Inc.
• Women's News 
• Women and Social Security
• Institute for Women's Policy Research
• Child Care Resources
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE
• National Organization for Women

School District Employees:

• Education Departments
  • U.S. Department of Education
  • Connecticut Department of Education
  • New Jersey Department of Education
  • New York Department of Education
  • Massachusetts Department of Education
• School Crisis Guide
• The No Child Left Behind Act
• Job Search Guide for School District Employees - NY
• National Resource Center for Paraprofessionals

Civil Service

• NYSHIP Rates and Deadlines for 2021
• Empire Plan for Groups in Non-Grandfathered Plans
• Librarians Guide to Civil Service
• Setting the Record Straight About Public Pensions
• Benefit Eligibility Requirements for new NYSHIP employees
• Medicare & NYSHIPS Excelsior and Empire Plans for Participating Agency Retirees 
• 211 Waivers
• Reclassification or Desk Audit assistance
• Links to assist UPSEU members in preparing for Civil Service Exams:
  • Civil Service Exam & Test
  • New York State Test Guides

    In addition to the above information, UPSEU has "24 Hours to the Civil Service Exam" by Turlington, which is available for members on loan from our union library. Please contact your Labor Relations Representative for further info.

Social Service Workers

• Child Welfare Information Gateway
• Job Bank
• US Department of Health and Human Services
• Child Welfare League
• Disadvantaged Children
• Preventing Workplace Violence for Health Care & Social Services Workers (OSHA 3148)

Nursing

• What Do School Nurses Do?
• Protest of Nursing Assignment
• Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Title 10, Section 2.59, "Regulation for Prevention of Influenza Transmission by Healthcare and Residential Facility and Agency Personnel"
• Nursing Spectrum
• National Board for Certification of School Nurses
• Nurse Practitioner Central
• State School Nursing Organizations
  • Connecticut Association of School Nurses
  • Massachusetts School Nurse Organization, Inc.
  • New Jersey State School Nurses Association
  • New York State Association of School Nurses
• National Nursing Organizations
  • American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
  • American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
  • American Assisted Living Nurses Association
  • American Association for the History of Nursing
  • American Association of Colleges of Nursing
    
    Click for a Full list of Nursing Links

Transportation/DPW:

• Departments of Transportation
  • US DOT
  • Connecticut DOT
  • New Jersey DOT
  • New York DOT
  • Massachusetts DOT
• National Work Zone Safety
• CDL Drivers: A Commercial Driver's License is a requirement for many members and i is important to stay up to date on your requirements if you hold a CDL. Below are links that will give you information and help you keep your C updated.
• Commercial Drivers License Holders Beware
• CDL Drivers Common Issues
• Federal Motor Carrier Regulations
• National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners
• Requirements for School Bus Drivers, Monitors and Attendants
• School Bus Driver Endorsements

Probation Officers:

• Background Information Resources
  • Connecticut Department of Corrections
  • New Jersey Department of Corrections
  • New York State Department of Corrections
  • Massachusetts Department of Correction
  • Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Professional Organizations
  • American Correctional Association
  • American Probation and Parole Association
  • Pretrial Services Resource Center
  • Corrections Connection
• Reference Resources
  • National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
  • National Institute of Corrections
  • National Institute of Drug Abuse

Facilities:

• Health and Safety Glossary of Terms
• Brief Guide to Mold in the Workplace
• What to do if you are involved in a splashing incident

Retirement Resources:

• 2021 Medicare Costs
• Facts About New York State Deferred Comp Plan
• NYS Deferred Compensation Enrollment Application Form
• Pitfalls to Avoid When Switching to Medicare
• Top 10 Medicare Mistakes
• National Institute on Retirement Security
• How your benefits are reduced if you file for Social Security early
• When to Apply for Benefits
• Rights of Divorced Spouses
• Retiring? Know the Steps
• Individual and Employer Retirement Savings Plans Guide
• What Participating Agency Retirees Need to Know about Medicare & NYSHIP
• AARP
• Center for Retirement Research
• Full Retirement and age 62 benefit by year of birth
• New York State Retirement System: Contract College