mywbusiness
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
Missouri
We have an employee whom we have been paying $700 per month and showing on his check stub that this is a "benefit". It amounted to $350 per pay period (because we pay twice monthly). This began more than two years ago, and at that time he was paying around $450 per month for him insurance. We gave him the amount of $700 to more than cover that insurance premium, plus enough to cover a cell bill, because he often uses it for work-related business.
In December 2009 we asked him to update the information and show us a statement with the amount he currently pays for insurance. He refused, then he informed us he had dropped the coverage many months ago. We cut his "benefit" in half, now giving him a total of $350/month. He insists we need to tell him why, does not understand what benefits means, so we are going to change that on his check stub to explicitly say, "insurance benefit".
Is there anything wrong legally in the way we handled this? We did not feel we needed to give him written notice for anything, since we are the ones paying him the benefit, not taking anything out of his check or changing his base pay in any way.
Missouri
We have an employee whom we have been paying $700 per month and showing on his check stub that this is a "benefit". It amounted to $350 per pay period (because we pay twice monthly). This began more than two years ago, and at that time he was paying around $450 per month for him insurance. We gave him the amount of $700 to more than cover that insurance premium, plus enough to cover a cell bill, because he often uses it for work-related business.
In December 2009 we asked him to update the information and show us a statement with the amount he currently pays for insurance. He refused, then he informed us he had dropped the coverage many months ago. We cut his "benefit" in half, now giving him a total of $350/month. He insists we need to tell him why, does not understand what benefits means, so we are going to change that on his check stub to explicitly say, "insurance benefit".
Is there anything wrong legally in the way we handled this? We did not feel we needed to give him written notice for anything, since we are the ones paying him the benefit, not taking anything out of his check or changing his base pay in any way.