The Greenbrier Council of Labor Unions announced in a press release Friday afternoon that Greenbrier employees will continue to receive health insurance benefits through August 31.

Earlier this week, Greenbrier employees received a letter from an attorney representing the Amalgamated National Health Fund, who wrote that the Greenbrier Hotel Corporation four months behind schedule in health fund contributions. The company owes approximately $2.4 million in past-due contributions, with another $1.2 million due soon.

The Greenbrier’s past-due contributions include contributions that were deducted from employees’ paychecks but not paid into the health fund, the attorney wrote. If payments were not made, the company would have stopped providing health insurance on Aug. 27 – the same day the Greenbrier hotel was scheduled to be auctioned off.

On Thursday, however, the auction was stoppedwhich gives the Greenbrier Hotel Corporation until Oct. 24 to make a payment to Beltway Capital. Since the hotel will no longer be sold on Tuesday, the health fund will continue to cover employees through Aug. 31.

During a government briefing Thursday, Gov. Jim Justice – who owns the Greenbrier but says he is not involved in day-to-day operations because his children run the business – said, “Insurance payments have been made and will be made on a regular basis, as we have in many ways in the past.”

The Greenbrier Council of Labor Unions’ press release said the violations were “actual, tangible and documented.”