Becoming Benefits Eligible 20 - 40 Hours per Week

Going from Non-Exempt to Exempt

The chart below shows how you accrue PTO hours. The chart is based on an 80-hour pay period. If you are paid for less than 80 hours in a pay period, you earn prorated PTO hours.

Increasing Weekly Hours to 32 - 40

If you were already benefits eligible

• Confirm that your Supervisor has submitted an e-Status form for you.
• Decide if you will need to raise your dependent care Flexible Spending Account contribution.
• Consider if you need to purchase Supplemental Employee Life insurance.
• Contact your Human Resources department for a Benefits Enrollment & Change form and return it to your Human Resources department before the end of 30 days from the date your hours changed.
• What you need to do: (if you are newly benefits eligible)

If you are newly benefits eligible

• Confirm that your Supervisor has submitted an e-Status Form for you.
• Read your Associate Benefits Booklet
• Consider your family circumstances and make careful choices of the benefit plans you wish to enroll in.
• Fill out an Benefits Enrollment or Change form.
• Return the form to your Human Resources department before the end of 30 days from the date your hours changed and you became benefits-eligible.

Forms: Benefits Enrollment Form or Benefits Change Form, Change in Beneficiary Designation

Decreasing Weekly Hours to 20 - 31.5

• Confirm that your Supervisor has submitted an e-Status form for you.
• If you have Supplemental Life plan coverage, contact Human Resources and submit a Benefits Change form within 30 days of the event or you will lose your coverage.
• Check your pay stub carefully for several pay periods to determine that your benefits are correct.

Forms:Benefits Change Form

Benefits Eligible Working Less Than 20 Hours per Week

Increasing Weekly Hours to 20 - 31.5

• Confirm that your Supervisor has submitted an e-Status form for you.
• Read Your Associate Benefit Program Booklet
• Consider your family circumstances and make careful choices of the benefit plans you wish to enroll in.
• Fill out a Benefits Enrollment form.
• Return the form to your Human Resources department before the end of 30 days from the date your hours changed and you became benefits-eligible.
  

Forms: Benefits Enrollment Form , Change in Beneficiary Designation

Moving to a Different Business Unit

• Confirm that your Supervisor has submitted an e-Status form for you.
• Call the Benefits department to make bill-at-home arrangements if you have voluntary universal life insurance deducted from your pay check
• Check your pay stub carefully for several pay periods to determine that all your benefits are correct.

Forms: None

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