One way small and mid-sized businesses can rein in their health insurance costs is by limiting who they Offer the Benefit to, such as only offering the benefit to full-time employees.
Many employers have asked us whether they can take this approach a step further, and offer different levels of benefits to different employees.
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The short answer is: Yes! As long as the employer doesn’t make these decisions on a discriminatory basis, offering different benefits to different employees is completely legal.
In this post, we’ll explore:
- The laws surrounding benefit eligibility based on company size
- How employers can legally restrict eligibility or offer different benefits to different employees, based on class rules
- Discriminatory practices to avoid with benefit eligibility and benefit features
- Laws surrounding highly-compensated employees
- How PeopleKeep can help you offer a compliant health benefit
This post first appeared on Small Business Employee Benefits And HR, please read the originial post: here
