How Do I Use Employee Groups with Automation Rules?

You can use employee groups for Add or Termination rules. If the rules are different based on employee groups, attach a specific group to the rules you define. Groups attached to automation rules for a given plan must be mutually exclusive, so that no employee is a member of more than one group and only one rule applies to any given employee.

Example

Your company has a health plan that covers all full-time union employees. The company has two unions, Union A and Union B. When a termination occurs, coverage in the plan ends at the end of the month for employees in Union A, but extends for 45 days beyond the termination date for employees in Union B. Two separate termination rules are defined, each with an employee group attached (Group A and Group B). The group of all full-time union employees (Group C) which is used to define eligibility on the benefit plan, must be defined with criteria that identifies Group A and Group B.

Note: For the Benefits Administration application update program to process the rules correctly, the employee group you identified when you defined eligibility for a plan must use a nested group approach for the group criteria. When you use group-specific automation rules, the groups attached to the rules must literally make up the criteria for the group used as the plan's main eligible group.