Standards for information processing issued by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in the U.S. Department of Commerce; includes a numeric designation for geographic areas such as States, counties, and metropolitan areas.
This type of plan provides employees a choice about their level of coverage among a number of different kinds of benefits, or gives employees pretax reimbursements for certain expenses related to employee benefits.
Employees are classified as full time or part time in accordance with the practices of their establishments, usually a full-time employee worked a 40-hour wee OR employees who usually work more than 35 hours per week (at all jobs within an establishment) regardless of the number of hours worked in the reference week.