The City of Springfield has reversed its decision not to extend partner benefits to civil union spouses, after a city committee came under fire for voting to deny the benefits based on financial concerns.
There is talk that this restriction might be extended to partners worldwide.The two-year-old Independence Standards Board (ISB), which is supervised by the SEC, has been examining the whole body of regulations that has accrued since the 1933 Securities Act.
Mr. Perry, longtime civil rights advocate and the founder of the predominantly gay Metropolitan Community Churches, resolved to return next year and thanked the clerk, who made it clear that she was simply following the law: although Vermont has extended domestic-partner benefits to same-sex couples, no state recognizes same-sex marriages.
About 58 percent of Fortune 500 companies extend domestic partner coverage to employees with same-sex partners, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
Kate loves the fact that the circle of people she's close with extends to her partners' partners and beyond.
A major cause of Dewey's financial woes was the lavish multiyear, multimillion-dollar guarantees it extended to its partners.
They extend ballet partnering into new shapes and realms.
Mr. Allen was working at Mobil at the time of the merger with Exxon, and was involved in persuading Mobil's former chairman, Lucio Noto, to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and to extend domestic partner benefits to same-sex couples.
Some companies extend domestic partner benefits to one area, like bereavement leave, as a test, says Ilse de Veer, a benefits consultant with Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
Progressive compared to its peers, Target extends domestic-partner benefits to gay and lesbian employees.
