End Domestic Partner Benefits (Vanity)

Teotwawki | July 1, 2015 | Teotwawki

[Teotwawki]

My company, like many others, offers the same benefits to same sex domestic partners as it does to opposite sex spouses.

With the recent supreme court ruling on same sex marriage, we should all call on all of these companies to end domestic partner benefits or offer the same to hetero couples as well. If pushed, think most companies would offer benefits only to married couples of the same or opposite sex.

If they want the benefits, make them get married. In a lot of cases, I think we'll find out that they aren't such a dedicated couple as just freeloading off the system.

[Teotwawki]

Apologies for the vanity post but I really think we should push this issue right back at them.

[House Atreides]

I second that motion.

[Gamecock]

All in favor?

[kiryandil]

Why apologize? It’s a good post.

[taildragger]

With Obamacare, chances are if the company is small they are gonna start canning all benefits. I am wondering when term group life, and 401k's etc go bye-bye as the cost of everything goes though the moon, or they start making everyone independent contractors and everyone is essentially a "job-shopper"....

[TangibleDisgust]

aye.

no special rights and privileges for them.

[NEMDF]

I think it is a great idea. Must be married to get married benefits.

[concerned about politics]

Good point. Homos get special rights for living together. Heteroperfect couples do not. It's discriminatory based on what kind of sex they have.

All it would take is a heteroperfect couple to sue. Then, if the homos want their bennies, they'd HAVE to get "married." (Marriage is NOT what the homos wanted. They just wanted to put Gods people into prison.)

[Yaelle]

That is very reasonable. Commit or don’t expect goodies.

[Hugin]

Great point. Either that of start allowing anyone to claim DP status.

[manc]

Agreed. If they are about equal rights which they had as I could not marry the same sex ten why do they have these special laws for them and not for us?

[JJ_Folderol]

Brilliant! And with an element of sardonic humor!

[GIdget2004]

I fully expect most companies and organizations will do this in the fall, when most open enrollment of benefits happens.

[concerned about politics]

My husband just told me the health insurance companies are already working on getting rid of non-married partnership benefits because they're no longer necessary. This was not new news to him.
Now, if homos don't want to get the "married" paperwork, one of them might have to settle for the lesser obomacare. They're going to lose the partnership benefit.

[Mears]

Absolutely should be eliminated.

Singles could all get coverage for roommates if gays are allowed to keep it.

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[concerned about politics]

I fully expect most companies and organizations will do this in the fall, when most open enrollment of benefits happens.

Yeah. It'll save them money, because marriage wasn't what the homos wanted. They just wanted the political tool to destroy the heteroperfect.

[Secret Agent Man]

Exact right tact to take.

[JSDude1]

Stupid idea, I don’t want to encourage individuals to enter into gay “marriages”.

[mountainbunny]

Some companies already have this policy. If a couple lived on a “right to marry” state prior to Friday, there were no partner benefits.

I expect other companies to do the same fairly quickly. It would simplify things, and allow a higher hurdle (marriage) than previously (living together).