2024 Benefits Guide

Family Support

Thermo Fisher offers a variety of benefits and programs to support you and your family. No action is required to enroll and you can participate at any time.

Adoption Assistance

Get help with the expenses of adopting a child. Our program provides a lifetime maximum of $5,000 to assist eligible colleagues with qualified expenses associated with the adoption of a minor child. These include adoption fees, attorney fees, court costs and select travel expenses while away from home.

Back-up Child and Elder Care Support

Avoid the stress of last-minute dependent care changes with back-up child and elder care from Bright Horizons. Back-Up Care provides support when you experience a temporary breakdown in your normal child or elder care arrangements (e.g., school or childcare center is closed, caretaker is on vacation, family member is ill, etc.), and you need to get to work.

Specialists are available 24/7 to help you identify alternate care options either in-home or at a center-based site near you. You can enroll in this benefit directly on the program website.

Enhanced Family Support

Caring for dependents can be a challenge. Bright Horizons offers family concierge support with your caregiver search and placement as well as elder care planning. Receive tutoring assistance, priority enrollment at all Bright Horizons childcare centers and discounts at partner centers nationwide. 

Special Needs Support

Personalized guidance to navigate the special needs journey is available through Bright Horizons Special needs. Get skilled advice to better understand and support your child both at home and school. Online tools, expert webinars and a personal advisor can help you and your child deal with the social, educational and emotional challenges. All benefits-eligible colleagues can utilize this resource for their family members. 

College Coach

College Coach through Bright Horizons can help your children with personalized guidance, online resources and more at all levels of their academic careers.

Reproductive Health Education

FertilityIQ is an on-demand educational platform delivering multi-generational fertility, reproductive health, menopause, and family-building information whenever and wherever you need it most. To get started, visit thermofisher.fertilityiq.com and use confirmation code Thermofisher.

Parental Leave

We continue your salary at full pay during designated caregiver and bonding leave periods, which begin on the date of birth or date your child is placed in the home for adoption.

Primary caregivers are eligible for both Caregiver Leave (8 weeks) and Bonding Leave (3 weeks) for a total of 11 paid weeks. Secondary caregivers will be provided 3 weeks of paid Bonding Leave. If you are a member of a collective bargaining group, please refer to your collective bargaining agreement for details on your leave.

You must enroll on MyBenefits to have coverage.

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