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Posted on 08/27/2013 12:53:17 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. told workers this week that it will begin offering health insurance benefits to the domestic partners of U.S. employees next year.
The extension of health benefits marks a major change for the country’s largest private employer of 1.3 million U.S. workers, which has been targeted by gay-rights advocacy groups for failing to do so.
The move comes on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, which had denied federal benefits to gay couples married under state law.
Rather than go state by state, Wal-Mart decided to adopt a blanket approach to ensure consistent treatment of its employees, spokesman Randy Hargrove said.
Nearly two-thirds of the Fortune 500 firms—including General Electric Co. and General Motors Co.—offer such benefits, according to a recent analysis by the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights advocacy group.
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I quit walmart when they quit on the US Constitution.
LLS
Your typical “free trader” would probably argue that you have the choice to visit Wal-Mart, or not. No need to run to Uncle Sugar, as protectionists do.
Yeah, Walmart has become the normal. I’m not familiar with Costco. Left coast?
Walmart hasn’t had many full time workers (40 hour) for many years. hussein merely legitimatized it.
Super Walmarts are grocery stores, sell guns or ammo, and are forbidden to millions of Americans as they are kept out of many major cities, Costco is a membership deal, like Sam’s Club, Costco is also very pro democrat party.
Aww ......FR fave Statist can’t explain why his economic policies are only beneficial to Gay Americans
Before we had your Marxist Free Trade....we had a lot more American companies making American products and hiring American citizens...
But..hey ....Free Trade is good for Gays....at least according to WalMart. Now I can subsidize Communist China AND insure Gays at the same time....woohoo /sarc
Free Trade is Gay
Domestic Partner <> Married.
Can an unmarried man and woman qualify as a domestic partnership?
Troll, much?
Rumor has it that Walmart will call it QueerCare to honor His Arrogance and supporters.
Don’t care...private company...could offer death benefits to pets for all I care...just don’t have the gubmint make people and companies do it.
Will they have to raise their everyday low prices on the crap nobody wants to buy and raise the higher priced crap even higher?
Folks from K street wrote obamacare.
They can always claim they’re married. I’ve had many jobs and have put my wives on my insurance and sometimes I was on theirs. I’ve never been asked to provide a copy of a marriage license.
“Can an unmarried man and woman qualify as a domestic partnership?”
Yes. This will affect many more unmarried heterosexual couples than homosexual couples. My employer now offers “soft” benefits (not health insurance) to domestic partners of its workers. It has resisted extending all benefits to domestic partners because of the cost. One estimate I have read is there would be five times more heterosexual couples than homosexual couples that would have to be covered if benefits were extended to all domestic partners.
I've occasionally had to provide a copy (sometimes an official one with a raised seal) of my marriage license when I put my wife on my insurance. My current employer didn't require documentation, and a recent audit found rampant fraud. Approximately 10% of all spousal coverage claims were discovered to be bogus.
Probably policy set in a personel department by a female with a degree in womyn’s studies.
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