Legal Question in Employment Law in Florida
Equal Health Insurance
Can a company owners supply themselves with better benefits than the other employees? Example: three minority partners in a small company, each owns ten percent and work at the company. As health insurance they get 100 percent of their premiums paid for themselves and their familiy members. The other employees of the company only get 75 percent of their premiums paid and 50 percent of their families. Can they legally give themselves better benefits than their employees?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Equal Health Insurance
Yes they can - there is no legal obligation to provide health insurance benefits at all, and in fact, it is quite common for certain employees (management for example) to get their health insurance paid while line employees have to pay their own premiums.