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Gays at Globe told to marry or lose benefits (1 Viewer)

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Memo to Boston Globe gay and lesbian Guild employees: Get married or lose your domestic partner benefits.
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Globe staffers have been told that health and dental benefits for gay employees’ domestic partners are being discontinued. Gay couples who want to keep their benefits must marry by Jan. 1.
A memo sent to the Globe’s Boston Newspaper Guild members, and obtained by the Herald, states that Massachusetts gay Guild employees can extend their benefits to their partners only if they marry.
“An employee who currently covers a same-sex domestic partner as a dependent will have to marry his or her partner by Jan. 1 for the employee benefits coverage to continue at the employee rates,” the memo states.
The policy change at the Globe, which devotes extensive coverage to gay issues, opens a new can of worms in the Bay State as employers rethink their domestic partner benefits in the wake of the legalization of gay marriage in 2004.
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Benefits for domestic partners were originally offered to gay employees because they couldn’t legally marry, said Ilene Robinson Sunshine, a lawyer at Sullivan & Worcester.
Now that gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts companies that offer benefits to gay employees’ partners risk hearing cries of discrimination from unmarried straight couples.
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The Globe does not extend benefits to live-in partners of its heterosexual employees. Like many companies, it offered benefits to partners of gay employees because marriage was not an option for them. Now that gay marriage is an option in Massachusetts, Behenna said the paper could be more susceptible to claims of discrimination.
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Domestic partner benefits will continue for Globe employees who live in states where gay marriage is not recognized, Behenna said.
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Interesting to see one of the side effects of the court ruling.
 
talloulou said:
It is interesting. Makes perfect sense though.
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I heard there have been 8,000 gay marriages in Mass. since the activist judges made their ruling...........Its going to be a real mess if the people of Mass. step up and approve the amendment banning gay marriage........
 
Seem fair enough since single heteros can't get benefits for their partners unless they are married also. What is unfair about it is that gays can't marry.They can't win!
 
Perfectly fair. But if there is a marriage amendment on the ballot, then it passes, then it will be unfair. I agree with above. They just can't win.
 
americanwoman said:
Seem fair enough since single heteros can't get benefits for their partners unless they are married also. What is unfair about it is that gays can't marry.They can't win!
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They can marry now and if that changes then I'm sure the company will reinstate their "partner" benefits. It says right in the article that the company didn't change the benefits in states where gay marriage is illegal.
 
americanwoman said:
Seem fair enough since single heteros can't get benefits for their partners unless they are married also. What is unfair about it is that gays can't marry.They can't win!
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It only applies to states where gay marriage is legal. For those that live in states where gay marriage is illegal, it doesn't affect them and the domestic partner benefits will continue.

From the article:

Domestic partner benefits will continue for Globe employees who live in states where gay marriage is not recognized, Behenna said.
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I agree with the Globe in the fact that if gay marriage is LEGAL in the state they live in, that gays should be married to continue receiving benefits for their partners.
 
TheNextEra said:
It only applies to states where gay marriage is legal. For those that live in states where gay marriage is illegal, it doesn't affect them and the domestic partner benefits will continue.

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I agree with the Globe in the fact that if gay marriage is LEGAL in the state they live in, that gays should be married to continue receiving benefits for their partners.
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my bad:doh I didn't read the whole thing. If it is legal in their state then they should definetly have to get married.


Now that gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts companies that offer benefits to gay employees’ partners risk hearing cries of discrimination from unmarried straight couples
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It would be total discrimination! I think singles are discriminated enough as it is but this it totally not fair. I have to say then I agree that if marriage is legal they need to get married or change it so anyone can get benefits for their "domestic partner"
 
americanwoman,

I'd love to have the benfits of a "domestic partner"... :cool:
 
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