The Integrity Benefits Team is here to assist you while you rehire employees who were laid off due to COVID-19.

Since rehired employees may have obtained benefits elsewhere while they were laid off, they may choose to continue those new benefits instead of what they were enrolled in previously.  Also, they may decide to drop coverages due to cost.

Each employee that is rehired, that had benefits before they were laid off, will need to complete their enrollment once again.  This will ensure that we accurately enroll them in the benefits they choose to keep.  Integrity will not re-enroll employees on their old benefits without a new enrollment.  For an updated enrollment form, please contact our department at benefits@integrityhrm.com.

If the rehire decides they do not want to continue benefits that they had before they were laid off, they will still need to complete an enrollment, indicating that they are waiving all benefits coverage.  However, they will not be able to re-enroll in benefits until your company’s next open enrollment. 

Once the enrollment has been completed, please send it to benefits@integrityhrm.com and indicate if you want to waive the waiting period for this rehire.  For example, if your company’s waiting period is 1^st of the month following 60 days, and your rehired employee starts work on 05/18, then ordinarily their benefits would not begin until 08/01.  However, you may choose to waive this waiting period.  If so, please indicate at the top of the form and/or in the email that you would like to waive benefits for the rehired employee.  This means if the rehire came back to work on 05/18, then their benefits would begin on 06/01.

As always, the Benefits Team is here as your partner during this time of change.  As your partner, we want to ensure that your company remains compliant.  Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have.

 Your Integrity Benefits Team