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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 01:18:17 GMT
- Organization: Colorado Springs IT Center
- Lines: 32
- Message-ID: <1hthopINNaa0@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- References: <1992Dec31.002741.2546@spdcc.com>
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- dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- > I'd be happy if partnership benefits were extended to all couples
- > without reference to their marital status. Health insurance is the
- > big issue, of course. We're talking about $2500 or more per year
- > for private individual insurance; this is a big chunk of change.
-
- Has anyone put together a way to for companies to code this, that
- would provide coverage for 'couples', without leaving them open
- to roomates or just anyone a person wants to put on the insurance?
- I may be ill-informed (please, let's not all snicker at once..:-)
- about it, but I was under the impression homosexual marriages were'nt
- 'legal'. If they were, then this issue would be a lot easier to
- deal with.
-
- > >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.
- >
- > I was always under the impression that this was illegal, if carried
- > out in any systematic way. It is common policy in Europe, I'm told,
- > but I didn't think it was in the US. Am I naive?
-
- Maybe...I was told (when I worked for a different employer) by my
- manager (who I got along with very well) that this was why the
- married people I worked with made more than I did.
- I think that's the kind of thing companies might do because they
- see it as good business practice, and it's basically impossible
- to hit with legalities.
-
- Walter
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