AUTO-ENROLLMENT

Auto-Enrollment

The Affordable Care Act’s requirement to automatically enroll new full-time employees in one of their employer’s health benefits plans has been repealed.

On Nov. 2, 2015, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 was enacted, which, among other things, repealed the auto-enrollment provision contained in Section 18A of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

In general, the provision had required FLSA-covered employers with more than 200 full-time employees to automatically enroll new full-time employees in one of the employer’s health benefits plans.