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- From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Re: EE statements (was: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.171339.28754@PacBell.COM>
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
- References: <1992Dec30.232829.25789@PacBell.COM> <1htdr4INN8sj@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:13:39 GMT
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- > 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?...
-
- If by insurance you mean Health Plan, yes.
-
- > ...Any other bennies
- >that the married people get better? ie, can you explain in
- >more detail the discrepencies?
-
- My employer does includes "other adult member of household" in
- its Management Relocation Plan and Bereavement and Family Leave
- Plans. It has also recently added a "cash out" option to its
- Survivor Pension plan, which would otherwise go only to a
- surviving legal spouse. But other employers don't usually
- offer these benefits to unmarried partners. And bennies like
- Tuition Aid, gym membership, credit union membership, special
- life insurance group rates, for example, are usually not made
- available to unmarried partners (and their dependants)...
- in
-
- >> 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.
-
- But they don't always have "more responsibilities." If they
- don't have children and their spouse is also working, why
- should they get more compensation than their single counterparts?
- Why does the company arbitrarily decide who "needs it" and
- who deosn't, merely on the basis of a marriage certificate?
- >
- >> 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...
-
- Actually, he probably did it because Levi *cut off* funding
- the Boy Scouts because their discriminatory practices were
- in conflict with Levi's requirements for corporate contributions.
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- rod williams -=- pacific bell -=- san ramon, ca -=- rjwill6@pacbell.com
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