Health insurance will be extended for Greenbriar employees through Aug. 31, the Greenbriar Workers Union Council announced in a news release Friday afternoon.
Earlier this week, Greenbrier employees received a letter from lawyers representing the Amalgamated National Health Fund informing them that the Greenbrier Hotel Corporation is four months behind on its health fund contributions. The company is about $2.4 million in arrears, with another $1.2 million due soon.
The Greenbrier's past-due contributions include contributions that were deducted from employees' paychecks and not transferred to the health insurance fund, the lawyers wrote. If the payments weren't made, the company was scheduled to terminate the health insurance on Aug. 27, the same day the Greenbrier hotel was scheduled to be auctioned.
But the auction was called off Thursday, meaning the Greenbrier Hotel Corp. has until Oct. 24 to make the payment to Beltway Capital. With the hotel sale halted Tuesday, the health insurance fund will continue to provide insurance to employees through Aug. 31.
At an administration briefing Thursday, Gov. Jim Justice, who owns The Greenbrier but is not involved in its day-to-day operations because it is run by his children, said that “insurance payments have been and are being paid regularly, as we have done in various ways in the past.”
A news release from the Greenbrier Labor Council said the delinquencies are “real, specific and documented.”
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