Posted on 07/07/2003 6:28:06 AM PDT by TroutStalker
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:49:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Last week's announcement by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that it had extended its antidiscrimination policy to include gay and lesbian employees underscored a new reality: The workplace is becoming gay-friendly.
Some gay activists, in fact, consider Wal-Mart a laggard, given all the large companies that already have adopted such policies. According to a tally kept by Human Rights Campaign, a Washington-based gay-rights advocacy group, 318 of the nation's 500 largest public employers have similar bans on discrimination based on sexual orientation. Additionally, 198 of those companies offer health-insurance benefits to domestic partners of gay and lesbian employees, a measure Wal-Mart stopped short of adopting.
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