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Article: Smarter domestic partner benefits: don't launch domestic partner benefits on the fly.(Legal Trends)
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- HRMagazine
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- September 1, 2009
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As the debate over legalization of same-sex marriage continues and conflicting state laws banning same-sex marriage or recognizing varying forms of same-sex unions evolve, many employers are struggling to understand what offering domestic partner benefits entails and whether the time has come to implement a domestic partner benefits policy of their own.
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Employers that offer domestic partner benefits often have several reasons for doing so. A basic sense of fairness drives many employers to offer domestic partner benefits so that employees in same-sex relationships have access to equivalent benefits as employees in opposite-sex ...