HOW BRIDGESTONE BENEFITS YOU — OUR TOTAL WELL-BEING BENEFITS PACKAGE
Bridgestone Americas believes that taking care of you means more than just a prescription or dental plan. Bridgestone is committed to ensuring our benefits support the well-being of all teammates. With our benefit plans, we strive to meet the variety of emotional, financial, and physical needs our teammates have so they can thrive at work. We built this integrated approach to recognize all aspects of your health when giving your time and energy to represent the Bridgestone family of brands.
PHYSICAL HEALTH
Medical, Dental and Vision
Bridgestone health plans offer nationwide medical plan coverage, with various plans designed to meet your family’s unique needs. We have plans that allow you to participate in a healthcare savings account or flexible savings account, and all medical plans include prescription drug coverage.
Medical Maternity Leave and Parental Leave
As part of our short-term disability program, Bridgestone extends eight weeks of 100% paid medical leave to birthing parents. Our parental leave benefit, two weeks of 100% paid leave, is inclusive and available to eligible parents of all types, including those who adopt or use surrogates.
Needs-based Benefits
When focusing on the whole person, we recognize that teammates have different needs. We continue to enhance our offerings, to include autism spectrum coverage, 3D mammogram benefits, transgender services coverage, flexible workplace benefits (including a work-from-anywhere program for eligible roles) and wellness rooms at corporate locations to ensure our benefits meet the full spectrum of our teammates’ needs.
Disability Care and Protection
Bridgestone believes in disability protection aligned with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA). This protection prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, job training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. For information or questions about the ADAAA and how it might apply to you, contact its information line.
Bridgestone also provides short-term disability coverage for its teammates. This benefit enables teammates to have financial stability during the eligible period to help them get back on track after a challenging life event or illness. In addition to the company-paid short-term disability benefit, Bridgestone offers teammates the option to purchase a long-term disability benefit through a third-party provider.
Life Insurance
We offer policy tier options to teammates for an affordable price, including basic life insurance that is 100% Bridgestone paid. Additionally, supplement life coverage is offered to teammates and their families.
Safety
At Bridgestone, we believe that safety in the workplace is critical. Our goal is to provide a safe work environment for all. We provide on-the-job training to build you up as a knowledgeable and safe teammate at your respective work site.
EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Bridgestone’s EAP, is available to teammates, their families and household members. The EAP offers a broad range of resources. Whether a teammate or a household member is dealing with addiction, depression, or stress, or simply needs emotional well-being support, there are programs, and free counseling sessions focused on mental health to help navigate some of life’s everyday challenges and crises. Additionally, the EAP can be a great resource to help teammates or household members navigate caregiving support needs.
Employee Resource Groups
At Bridgestone, we are creating a workplace that fosters a culture of acceptance where you are Free to Be your true self because what we need is who you are, unchanged by the feeling that you might need to be a certain way to “fit in.” Being your true self is what matters in life — and that matters to us. We are proud to promote a culture of diversity and inclusion by building a team as diverse as the world we serve. In addition to instilling cultural competence and awareness in teammates, our teammate-led employee resource groups (ERGs) create an opportunity to bring teammates and allies together based on shared characteristics, life experiences, and interests as they learn more about one another through community outreach and volunteering, mentoring and development opportunities, and internal and external networking.
FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
401(k)
Bridgestone’s 401(k) helps you invest in your future by investing in you now. We offer a retirement savings plan to help you shape your retirement. Your retirement savings will grow with contributions made by you and matches from Bridgestone. Whether you choose to participate in a 401(k) plan or not, Bridgestone offers a variety of resources and tools to help you achieve your financial goals, whatever those may be.
Time Off
Bridgestone is closed on most major holidays so teammates can recognize the holiday, spend time with family or just enjoy a break. Additional time-off benefits are available and vary by location and part-time or full-time employment status.
Volunteer Time Off
As a teammate at Bridgestone, you can connect with your manager about volunteer time-off opportunities. These opportunities give Bridgestone links to the communities where teammates reside while giving them a meaningful break from work. Bridgestone takes our corporate social responsibility commitment very seriously, and we believe that we can perform for stakeholders while embracing our responsibility to future generations.
Tuition Reimbursement
Bridgestone is invested in your professional and educational growth because we know that relevant coursework can sharpen your specialized skill set and develop soft skills essential to corporate success. To provide this value to our teammates, we offer a tuition reimbursement program and continuing education support to provide this value to our teammates.
Team Assistance Fund
There are times when the unexpected can impact you and/or your loved ones ‘emotional, physical, and financial well-being. Bridgestone has a Team Assistance Fund that teammates can access for help in their time of need.
Supporting all aspects of our teammates’ well-being — physical, emotional and financial — is a critical component of being a great place to work. We’ve designed this comprehensive benefits package to help Bridgestone be that place. When teammates are healthy, we believe they’re better able to achieve their goals; that’s why we invest in benefits and programs that support all aspects of a healthy life.
This summary does not include all benefit programs and an HR representative will have a complete list of benefits offered depending on roles, locations and eligibility (i.e. pet insurance, critical illness, etc.)