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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Subject: Re: EE statements (was: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.051042.19647@spdcc.com>
- Organization: insert anything here
- References: <1992Dec31.171339.28754@PacBell.COM> <1hven4INN8ri@hp-col.col.hp.com> <1992Dec31.225332.769@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 05:10:42 GMT
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- gklein@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Gary Klein, bear-at-heart) writes:
- >In article <1hven4INN8ri@hp-col.col.hp.com>, smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith)
- > writes:
- >> rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:
-
- >>> ... 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)...
-
- >> Agreed. I don't know that these are EE issues, though.
- > ||Employment
- > Equal
- >
- > What do you think the word EQUAL means?
-
- > Why should corporations worry about the "concept" of Equal Employment?
- >Does each employer have the RIGHT to limit each and every employee/spousal
- >benefit as they see fit, and still be exempt from prosecution under EEOC
- >regulations?
-
- > Walter discusses this:
- >> ...
- >> 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...
-
- > Walter, how would you feel if your employer turned out to be a gay rights
- >activist, and revoked everyone of those 13 spousal benefits that I listed, from
- >YOU, while granting those benefits to your homosexual coworkers!
-
- Well - it couldn't happen, eight? I mean Walter is in COLORADO
- and CO:2 prevents someone from being discriminated against on the basis
- of their heterosexuality. So you MUST offer EE stuff to heterosexuals,
- but you DON'T have to for homosexuals even if you do for heteroseuxals.
-
- Isn't equality simple?
-