Union then management, hours to count

[K-t-F]

CPA has asked the question... I have a plan where an employee moved from being a union EE to a management EE (non union). The Union EEs have their own plan and the management EEs have thier own plan. For eligibility purposoes, when would we start counting the hours for the EE who just became management? From the beginning of the year or from the point where she became management forward?

[J2D2]

I vote for date of hire.

[david rigby]

Voting has nothing to do with this. See ERISA sec. 202, DOL reg. 2530.202.

[J2D2]

Which I believe will state that the eligibility computation period starts with employment commencement date (sorry for the inartful "date of hire" reference).

[K-t-F]

So being in the union has nothing to do with anything except for determining which plan she is eligible for. The thinking is that the employee earned wages from the employer, end of story. Those hours worked as a union member count .

Thanks

[J2D2]

Bingo! Oops . . . if I can't vote I probably shouldn't gamble either. Sorry.