Eligibility Requirements for Part-Time Partners
When Coverage Begins Direct Link
Part-Time new hires have 30 days from their effective date of hire to enroll in the FlexWorks Bridge Plan. Your coverage will become effective the first day of the pay period following your enrollment date. To enroll visit memberbenefitlogin.com/petco or call to speak with an enrollment representative at 888-534-1593.
Full-Time to Part-Time Changes:
Partners who move from Full-Time to Part-Time have 30 days from their effective date of change to enroll in the FlexWorks Bridge Plan. Your coverage will become effective the first day of the pay period following your enrollment date.
Qualified Live Events:
Partners that experience a Qualified Life Event will have 30 days from the event date to make changes to their FlexWork Bridge Plan. Coverage changes due to a qualified life event will be effective as soon as administratively feasible, but no later than the start of the next pay period, following the date the change is requested, except for New Baby, those will be effective as of the date of birth.
Eligible Dependents Direct Link
Your eligible dependents include:
- Legal spouse
- Domestic partner (same-sex or opposite-sex) – A Domestic Partner Affidavit is required to cover your partner. See more information about Domestic Partner coverage, qualifications and tax implications in the dropdown below.
- Children under age 26 or disabled
- Child of Domestic Partner
- Dependent children incapable of self-support due to mental or physical disability, if the child becomes disabled prior to reaching age 26
Your eligible children include:
- Natural born children
- Stepchildren, legally adopted children or children for whom you have been appointed legal guardianship by a court of law
- Children for whom the Plan has received a qualified domestic child support order
* For voluntary child life and family coverage under voluntary AD&D, children are eligible up to age 19, or age 26 if a full-time student.
Domestic Partner Coverage, Qualifications and Tax Implications Direct Link
Domestic Partner Coverage
Coverage for domestic partners will be available under the FlexWork Bridge Plan. Benefit includes the same and opposite sex partners of active, unmarried Petco employees. Children of enrolled domestic partners may also be eligible to enroll only if Domestic Partner (parent) is enrolled.
Domestic Partner Qualifications
The Company defines a domestic partner as a relationship between two people (same- or opposite-sex) who meet all of the following criteria:
- Each of you is of legal age (at least 18 years of age or older), mentally competent to enter into contracts and a legal U.S. resident
- You have joint responsibility for each other’s welfare and share living/household/financial obligations
- You have resided in the same household with each other for more than 12 months and are continuing to reside in the same household together.
- You have had an intimate, committed relationship for more than 12 months, intend to do so indefinitely and have no such relationship with any other person.
- You are not related by blood to your partner to a degree of kinship that would prevent a marriage between you from being recognized under the law of the state in which you reside
- Neither of you is married to any third party
Domestic Partner Tax Implications
Domestic partner portion of deducted premiums will be taken post tax for such coverage. This will be under the post tax section of your paycheck.
Affordable Care Act Direct Link
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), employers are required to offer part-time employees the opportunity to enroll in benefits if they meet certain qualifications.
Initial Measurement Period (IMP) – The IMP begins on a new hire’s first day of employment and ends on their first anniversary date. If a part-time partner has worked an average of at least 30 hours per week during their first year of employment, they will be offered the opportunity to enroll in benefits at that time. To retain eligibility for benefits, part-time partners must continue to work an average of 30 hours per week over each subsequent Standard Measurement Period.
Standard Measurement Period (SMP) – Petco’s SMP begins on November 15 of each year and ends on November 14 of the following year. The SMP applies to part-time partners after their first year of employment. Under the SMP, a part-time partner must work an average of 30 hours per week during the SMP to be offered the opportunity to enroll in benefits for the next plan year (February 1 – January 31).
- Once you become eligible under the SMP, you retain eligibility through the next plan year (February 1 – January 31).
- Each year you must work an average of 30 hours per week to be offered the chance to enroll in benefits for the upcoming plan year.
If your employment status changes to full-time and you are not already eligible under IMP or SMP, you will become eligible for benefits the first of the month following 30 days from the effective date of the change.
When Coverage Ends, Transitioning to Full-Time, or Being Rehired Direct Link
Partners who experience a Qualifying Life Event (QLE) to end coverage, transition from part-time to full-time, or have their employment terminated, will have their benefits end on the last day of the pay period in which the event’s effective date falls.
In the event of a dependent’s death, coverage for that dependent will end as of the date of death.
Partners who are rehired within 13 weeks of their last termination will have their previous benefits reinstated that they had at the time of termination. If you were not enrolled in benefit, you will need a qualifying life event to enroll in current full-time benefit plan or wait until the next annual enrollment. If partner’s rehire date exceeds 13 weeks, you are eligible to enroll in full-time benefits. Most benefits become effective on the first of the month following 30 days from your date of hire. You can enroll in benefits up until the day before your effective date.