OUR STORY

A Founders Tale

ETC, The early days…..

In 2010, Alicia left her law practice to start her own consulting firm, helping clients understand the risks of employment matters before they even needed an attorney. The focus was on educating employers about common, easily avoidable pitfalls. While reading through hundreds of pages of the final ACA regulations in 2012, Alicia thought, “Safe harbors, WOW, clients might not easily figure out these tracking rules, and if they do, it will be extremely time-consuming.” She realized there should be a tool to assist clients with this process.  At the time, Heather was already helping Haff Consulting clients with payroll and PEO situations.

In 2012, Heather left her PEO consulting firm to start her own consulting practice, helping clients understand the outsourcing world and the nuances of having a compliance support arm while ensuring a real return on investment. Many still with the PEO model, others putting together multiple vendors working together.  The focus was on integrating systems and data and having vendors collaborate to build a Best in Breed solution. Alicia was already assisting HRC Consulting clients with employment law matters.

Leaning into each other’s strengths, they decided to tackle compliance for employers together.  Fast forward to February 2013, when Alicia and Heather joined forces and founded Eligibility Tracking Calculators LLC and ETC HR LLC. They launched their compliance solutions with just the two partners and a part-time assistant. They reinvested in hiring outstanding staff to expand the team’s depth of knowledge. Today, their team of 33 associates supports compliance obligations for over 3,000 unique clients (ETC processes over half a million annual 1095s even when the goal is to not over report).  The ETC Companies still has the two divisions of ACA and HR and added a third support arm to bring compliance to Broker Agencies.

The ETC Companies continues to expand its services to assist more employers in these complex areas of compliance. While Alicia has taken on operational oversight over the traditional managed services, The “let ETC do it for you” offerings, Heather is taking lead on the new DIY model for those who need just an XML solution, as well as the new SUBCONTRACTOR support services team to assist third parties with their ACA obligations for their employer clients.  Heather’s background in payroll, peo, and insurance helps ETC to understand providing software as a service to those in need.

Being well-rounded in employment matters and data integrity allows the ETC team to integrate rules in a simple, streamlined fashion when consulting with clients. The focus for ETC Companies is to leverage the professionals’ expertise and proprietary software systems to make compliance obligations easy for clients.

Whether a client needs an ACA solution, an ERISA document, or has an employment law question, the team stands ready to serve.  Building the team was no small feat but it is with great pride and gratitude that Heather & Alicia allow the leaders to of ETC to step in and keep the ETC ways in full effect.