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- From: smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: EE statements (was: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 00:11:16 GMT
- Organization: Colorado Springs IT Center
- Lines: 51
- Message-ID: <1htdr4INN8sj@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- References: <1992Dec30.232829.25789@PacBell.COM>
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- rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:
- > My own employer, though exemplary in many ways, professes not
- > to discriminate on the basis of marital status, yet
- > compensates married employees more than unmarried employees,
- > by offering significant company benefits to the partners of
- > married employees, but few to the partners of unmarried ones.
-
- If I'm following you right, you mean a married person can have
- his spouse/dependants on his insurance, but a single person
- can't have his roommate/unmarried SO on it? Any other bennies
- that the married people get better? ie, can you explain in
- more detail the discrepencies?
-
- > And this doesn't even address lower payment of single
- > employees.
-
- When I was single, I didn't have a problem with married
- people at my same level getting paid more; I figured they
- needed it, as they had more responsibilities to take care
- of. I don't know that this is really an EE issue.
-
- > Pacific Telesis Group also says it won't
- > discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, but gives
- > corporate contributions to the Boy Scouts of America, who do.
-
- Yeah, I have a neighbor who tore up and threw away his Levi's
- because Levi's contributes to the Boy Scouts....seems pretty
- silly to me. It's like he only notices the bad about the
- Boy Scouts, and that totally obliterates the good. Again,
- I don't see contributing to a group that makes a positive
- contribution to society is anti-EE; its just not fanatical.
-
- > It says it doesn't discriminate on the basis of sex, race or
- > disability, yet a preponderance of the company's officers and
- > senior managers are able-bodied, heterosexual, white males,
- > while a majority of its workforce are either female or members
- > of racial minorities.
-
- A common problem, one that seems to be slowly getting better.
- This also illustrates why companies are more and more concerned
- with having correct quotas...
-
- > I think you'll find that AA/EEO/Diversity policies are usually
- > a statement of a company's goals and aspirations (some of them
- > mandated by law), rather than a reliable indicator of actual
- > practices or conditions.
-
- True.
-
- Walter
-
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