Sick Leave

[R. Butler]

I'm looking at a church personnel policy policy just as a favor to a client. I work only sparingly with churhc plans and less with welfare plans.

Sick pay is limited to a certain group of employees. Even if the group consitsed primarily of the "highly compensated" employees and "non-highlys" were predominantly excluded, assuming the church did not elect to be covered by ERISA, I'm not seeing that there would be a problem. Am I correct in that assumption?

Thanks for any guidance.