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- From: snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil Snodgrass)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: EE statements (was: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.002311.28876@lclark.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 00:23:11 GMT
- Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Dec31.002311.28876
- References: <1992Dec30.232829.25789@PacBell.COM> <1htdr4INN8sj@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
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- In article <1htdr4INN8sj@hp-col.col.hp.com> smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- >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?
-
- My insurance premium is higher because I have to pay heterosexuals
- to have children. So are the tax payers.
-
- Married people all over the country are asking that their companies help
- with child care...they are pushing the U.S. government real hard on
- this one. Again we have to pay for their children....
-
-
- >
- >> 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.
-
- This is wrong. Why should companies give out welfare because people
- are married?
-
- >
- >Walter
-
- Bil Snodgrass
-
- We also as a society have to pay to feed, clothe, house and render
- medical care to neglected children.....
- We have to pay for police protection to protect us from the teenage
- gangs.......
-
- But for some reason the traditional family who use to do everything on
- its own now has to have handouts from society and work to support their
- habits.....
-