Massachusetts has allowed same-sex couples to marry since 2004, and while more than 15,000 have done so, they are denied federal benefits like Social Security survivors' payments, the right to file taxes jointly and guaranteed leave from work to care for a sick spouse.
While same-sex couples can marry in Massachusetts — Ms. Coakley said more than 16,000 have done so — they are denied federal benefits like Social Security survivors' payments, the right to file taxes jointly and guaranteed leave from work to care for a sick spouse.
Both investors sued, contending that removing the guarantees left them unable to receive payments they're owed, a violation of the trust indenture law.
Israel has $1.4 billion in unused guarantees left for this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, and it can roll them over to next year, adding them to the $3 billion that will become available then.
But Locog's accounts show that the surplus is far from guaranteed, leaving the BOA chief executive, Andy Hunt, under pressure to deliver on cost-cutting plans and overdue commercial deals.
Olbermann wrote on his MLB.com blog on Wednesday that the Yankees would even cover the rest of Rodriguez's contract which has five years and $114 million guaranteed left.
Speaking about the lack of statutory maternity pay in the US, she said: "It is outrageous that America is the only developed country in the free world that doesn't guarantee paid leave to mothers of newborns".
According to Dr. Jody Heymann, director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, more than 160 countries ensure that all their citizens receive paid sick leave and more than 110 of them guarantee paid leave from the first day of illness.
The U.S. government is the only high-income nation in the world not to guarantee paid leave for its parents.
Due to high rates of poverty and health disparities in the LGBT community, LGBT workers urgently need laws that guarantee paid leave for health and family needs.
This is a big move forward in one of the only countries on Earth that does not guarantee parents leave with pay to care for a new baby.
