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September 09 Issue - Employee Monthly Magazine NotebookEmployee picnic is September 26Mark your calendars! The Laboratory’s annual employee picnic will be held 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. September 26 at Overlook Park in White Rock. This new venue provides plenty of space and parking for the “Family Fun Fest,” an event filled to the brim with good family fun, great food and music, and games and activities for children as well as adults. The picnic is open to all Laboratory employees and subcontractors and their families. No pets are allowed. Fall 2009 Benefits Open Enrollment is comingOpen Enrollment 2009 for Los Alamos National Security, LLC employees is scheduled for November 2 to December 4. Employees and retirees are required to enroll in an offered medical plan so that they and their dependents can receive medical insurance during 2010. Stay tuned for details about upcoming information sessions in October. Flu season: two separate vaccines available soonSeasonal flu vaccinations will be available through Occupational Medicine, the New Mexico Department of Health, local medical providers, and at the Los Alamos County Health Fair scheduled for October 24. Details will be announced. This vaccine offers no protection against 2009-H1N1 influenza. The vaccine for H1N1, which is anticipated to be released in mid-to-late October, will be controlled and distributed by the New Mexico Department of Health. It is unclear at this time whether the Laboratory will be allocated vaccine to distribute. Associate Directorates received a influenza toolkit with information and strategies to protect their employees from the flu. For more information, employees can visit the Occupational Medicine Web page at http://int.lanl.gov/health/occmed/swine_flu.shtml (internal). Laboratory retirees can visit the New Department of Health Web page at http://www.health.state.nm.us/H1N1/index.shtml for information on seasonal and H1N1 flu. Subcontracts awarded for architectural and engineering services at LabSix small businesses received subcontracts totaling up to $200 million for providing architectural and engineering services to the Laboratory. The businesses receiving the subcontracts from Los Alamos National Security, LLC are Lopez Engineering, Inc., Merrick & Company; Mosaic-STC, A Joint Venture, Professional Project Service, Inc., Vigil Enterprises, Inc., and Weidlinger-Navarro Northern New Mexico Joint Venture. These six small businesses represent a total of 41 firms, both large and small, that teamed to compete for architecture and engineering contract work. Three of the businesses are located in Northern New Mexico while the other three have strong roots in the region through their teaming arrangements. The subcontracts, which run five years, call for the companies to augment inhouse design engineering capabilities at the Laboratory. Special Lab scouting effort targets women and minoritiesLos Alamos recruiters will visit 15 universities and 5 professional career fair events this fall specifically to spot exceptional women and minority student, postdoc, and career candidates. The events were selected through a Laboratorywide planning session sponsored by the Recruitment Diversity Working Group and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity. Unofficial foreign travel to a sensitive countryPlanning a vacation? Employees who intend to visit a country deemed sensitive by the Department of State must submit Form 1743, Notification of Unofficial Foreign Travel to a Sensitive Country, 30 days before the travel date. See http://int.lanl.gov/security/documents/security-smart/foreigntravel_0806.pdf (internal) for more information. September service anniversariesFind the September service anniversaries online at http://www.lanl.gov/news/currents/2009/sept/anniversaries.shtml. In memoriam
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