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Last updated date: 4/5/2024

Overview

You can enroll for benefits:

  • When you first become an eligible employee
  • During Open Enrollment
  • During the calendar year, within 30 days of a qualified life event

Ready to enroll? Go to the Empyrean Benefits Enrollment platform​.

Live in Hawaii and Waiving Medical Coverage?

Robert Half offers two medical plans to eligible temporary professionals in Hawaii. Both medical plans meet the requirements of the Hawaii Prepaid Health Act.

If you want to waive medical coverage, either as a newly eligible employee or during Open Enrollment, you must:

If you don’t complete all the waiver steps above, you’ll be automatically enrolled in employee-only coverage under the Kaiser Hawaii Gold Be Fit Plan.

Upon Hire

Your eligibility and enrollment timing depends on what type of employee you are. If you don’t enroll within the specified time period, you won’t be able to enroll for benefits until the next Open Enrollment period, unless you experience a qualified life vent as defined by the IRS.

Robert Half and Protiviti

You’re eligible to enroll in Robert Half’s benefits program if you’re a regular Robert Half and Protiviti employee working a minimum of 20 hours per week, instead of 30 hours per week. (Note: The 20-hour eligibility requirement doesn’t apply to Full-Time Engagement Professionals.) You must enroll for benefits within 30 days following your hire date. Go to the Empyrean Benefits Enrollment platform​.

Staff Living in Hawaii

If you’re a staff employee living in Hawaii, you become eligible for medical benefits (even as a part-time employee) if you work four consecutive weeks for 20 hours or more per week. You must enroll for benefits within 30 days following your hire date.

Full-Time Engagement Professionals

You’re eligible to enroll in Robert Half’s benefits program if you’re a regular, Full-Time Engagement Professionals employee who works a minimum of 30 hours per week. You become eligible for most benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with 30 days of continuous, active full-time employment. For commuter benefits and the Employee Assistance Program, you become eligible on your hire date. (The date you become eligible for a benefit plan is considered your “eligibility date.”)

If you’re a Full-Time Engagement Professionals employee working in Hawaii, you become eligible for medical benefits if you work four consecutive weeks for 20 hours or more per week.

You must enroll for benefits within 30 days following your hire date.

You must enroll for benefits within 30 days following your hire date. Go to the Empyrean Benefits Enrollment platform​.

Part-Time Employees (Working Less than 20 Hours)

You are eligible to enroll in commuter benefits and the following voluntary products:

  • Identity theft protection
  • Auto and home insurance
  • Pet insurance

During Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment is your annual opportunity to enroll for benefits or make changes to your existing benefits. Generally, benefits you elect during Open Enrollment will be effective January 1 through December 31 of the following year unless you experience a qualified life event that permits you to change your coverage or makes you ineligible for coverage.

During the Year When Life Changes

If you experience a status change that affects your eligibility for benefits or an IRS-qualified life event during the year, you may enroll for coverage in new plans and make changes to existing coverage within 30 days of the event. Go to the Empyrean Benefits Enrollment platform​ or call 1.855.RHI-BENE to start the process.

Your benefit elections or changes must be consistent with the event. Documentation of the event may be required.

Changes you make generally will be effective on the first day of the month following or coinciding with a qualified life event, except for:

  • The birth of a baby or adoption: Coverage begins on the date of birth or date the child is put in custody for adoption.
  • Removing dependents from coverage: Coverage ends for your dropped dependent on the last day of the month.
  • Death, divorce, legal separation or termination of a domestic partnership: Coverage ends the day after the event date.*

* For medical coverage through HMSA (in Hawaii), coverage ends at the end of the month for these qualified life events.

Qualified Life Events

Getting married or divorced? Having a baby or adopting? Examples of qualified life events, per IRS guidelines, include but are not limited to:

  • Marriage
  • Divorce
  • Birth, adoption of a child or becoming a court-appointed legal guardian
  • Death of a dependent
  • Loss of dependent eligibility for coverage
  • Loss of coverage due to a change in employment status