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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 18:38:28 GMT
- Organization: Colorado Springs IT Center
- Lines: 43
- Message-ID: <1hven4INN8ri@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- References: <1992Dec31.171339.28754@PacBell.COM>
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- rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:
- > >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.
-
- That's what I meant.
-
- > 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
-
- Agreed. I don't know that these are EE issues, though. The
- problem seems to center around not being able to marry, which
- would provide the companies with a clear way to determine
- that they should give bennies to given people. Companies like
- things nice and neat; and it isn't that way yet. Fix that, a
- and a lot of these other things should be cleared up.
- >
- > 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?
-
- Because they are the company, and that is their right. If they
- think it is good business to pay people who either have a family
- or are likely to be saving for one (married people) that is
- their perogative. It may seem unfair, but I don't know that
- it qualifies as an EE problem...
-
- > 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.
-
- Yup, you're right, that was it.
-
- Walter
-
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