Please read, if you hire staff and faculty at WSSU and wonder how the Affordable Care Act will impact your hires or current employees.
If you hire people at WSSU, consider the following for Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliance:
- Effective January 1, 2015, the ACA requires that anyone working 30 or more hours per week averaged over a 3 month time period be provided with employer-provided health insurance.
- The ACA employer mandate means that we must look at temporary employees, student employees, graduate RA/TA’s, non-tenure track faculty, lecturers…anyone employed and paid by the University. Many of these may not have been eligible in the past, but may be eligible now. Employer-provided health insurance is the State Health Plan's ACA Health Plan, not student health insurance, graduate support plans, etc. The cost to insure an employee on the State's plan can be determined by using the High Deductible Health Plan Rates and Benefit Summary.
- It is important to associate correct FTE (full-time equivalency) to job data in the HR System. The HR Benefits Office will be responsible for monitoring for eligible employees.
- Eligible employees (30 hours per week for 3 months or more) MUST be offered health insurance. If coverage is elected, departments will be charged for the cost of this health insurance unless the position is a benefits-eligible SPA or EPA appointment.