Employee Benefit Trusts and why their use occurs is a question that many business owners and HR professionals pose while analyzing corporate compensation schemes. To learn about employee benefit trusts, it will be beneficial to understand how companies form legal trusts to hold assets for the benefit of employees, like a stock ownership plan (ESOP), pension or profit-sharing. These trust arrangements could provide the employer with tax benefits and lawfully safeguard the employee benefits in the event the company becomes insolvent or reorganizes itself. Does your business have an employee's trust hierarchy? Come on and talk about how and what it will save you!