{"id":2349,"date":"2015-05-13T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2021-03-27T16:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T20:06:57","slug":"defining-full-time-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/defining-full-time-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Full Time Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2351\" alt=\"defining full time employment\" src=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/picresized_1338758007_happy-business-owner-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>There is no single way of defining full time employment for all employment-related issues. Depending on what the classification will affect, your company policies, your insurance policies, and the requirements under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Affordable Care Act<\/a> (ACA) may all play a part in determining what is considered full-time.<\/p>\n<p>As the employer you are free to define full-time and part-time requirements however you would like for many employment benefits such as eligibility for paid time off, holiday pay, and other workplace perks such as <a title=\"Tuition Reimbursement for Employees\" href=\"\/business\/tuition-reimbursement-for-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tuition assistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For benefits that are through insurance companies, you will need to determine whether the insurance plans have their own definition of full-time for the purpose of those policies. For example, many states require small group health insurance plans to offer coverage to any employee working a certain number of hours (often 30 hours per week) as a full-time employee.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, under the ACA, full-time employment is defined as working 30 or more hours per week. In 2015, employers with 100 or more full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) need to provide compliant health insurance to all full-time employees or face penalties under the <a title=\"Understanding the Employer Mandate: Download Our Guide\" href=\"\/business\/understanding-employer-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Employer Mandate<\/a>. For 2016, that requirement will apply to employers with 50 or more FTEs.<\/p>\n<p>Employers may have different definitions of full-time for these different purposes. For example, a large employer with well over 100 employees working at least 30 hours a week may decide that only \u201cfull-time\u201d employees working 40 hours a week may participate in its tuition reimbursement program, but still offer health insurance as required to all ACA \u201cfull-time\u201d employees who work at least 30 hours per week. For administrative ease, many employers are choosing to adopt the full-time status definition from their insurance policies or the ACA and using that as the definition across the board.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, an employer may define full-time and part-time requirements for the purposes of its internal policies, while insurance plan and ACA requirements will dictate full-time status for coverage purposes.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about how GTM helps businesses with employee classification issues, <a href=\"\/business\/contact-gtm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a> at (518) 373-4111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no single way of defining full time employment for all employment-related issues. Depending on what the classification will affect, your company policies, your insurance policies, and the requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may all play a part in determining what is considered full-time. As the employer you are free to define [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[8,11,38,16,29,10],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gtm-biz-blog-isolved","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-business-payroll","tag-classification","tag-employees","tag-insurance","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9528,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/9528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}