State RegulationsNC specificDifficulty 2/5
For North Carolina's small-employer health coverage rules, an 'eligible employee' is defined under G.S. 58-50-110(10) as an employee who:
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Why B is correct
Under G.S. 58-50-110(10), an eligible employee is a full-time employee with a normal workweek of 30 or more hours. That definition feeds the small-employer test in G.S. 58-50-110(22), which turns on employing no more than 50 eligible employees on at least half of the working days in the preceding calendar quarter.
Why the other options are wrong
- A) No tenure or waiting-period requirement appears in the statutory definition of eligible employee.
- C) The definition turns on full-time status and the 30-hour workweek, not on an employer's designation of part-timers.
- D) Prior enrollment in a group plan is irrelevant to whether an employee counts as eligible under G.S. 58-50-110(10).
Memory hook
Eligible = full-time, 30+ hours on the clock.