Different Benefits by Employee Class
FT
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If anyone out there is knowlegeable about offering different benefits by employee class I sure would appreciate your comments. We have just started a new company composed of administrators and over-the-road truck drivers. Our intent is to offer certain benefits by class. For example, administrators will get 6 paid holidays and truckers will get 2. Both will get vacation, but only administrators will get sick time. All will get health insurance...etc, etc. Does anyone see a problem with this, if we offer different benefits based on class of employee? Thank you in advance for your help.
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Are you saying for instance I could pay the difference in my prescription plan for the cost of drugs purchased outside of the tier one for instance. Tier one drugs are a $10 copay whereas Tier three is $45. So for say my 3 exempt managers I could tell them instead of or in addition to a pay increase that we would pay any prescription copays over the $10 per prescription for the next year?
Where is Don? He must have something to say about this?
edit: The huh was directed at Kaminski question.
So far, this has been working very well for us, as we have so many offices, each with different staffing requirements.
Again, normally this is fine. The only problems I have had is when an employee moves from one job to another where benefits change. You need to decide in advance what you will do so employee will know this when they accept the job change.
Again, be careful of discrimination. If it applies to insurance, talk with your broker. They do this all the time.
E Wart