same-sex marriage

General Motors To Offer Benefits To All Its Married Workers

Leave a Comment / marriage benefits / By max cyril

General Motors is basically following the Obama administration’s lead and extending marriage benefits to all of its workers in legal same-sex marriages, even those who live in states without marriage equality: “This decision is in line with GM’s efforts to find, keep and grow the world’s best talent and to offer our employees policies and benefits that are competitive …

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Same-sex spouse gets ERISA death benefit

Leave a Comment / Employee Retirement Income Security Act, sexual orientation, work sharing / By max cyril

Sarah Farley had worked at a law firm where she participated in the firm’s Profit Sharing Plan – a plan qualified under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The Plan provides that death benefits be paid to the participant’s “surviving Spouse.” Sarah then married Jean Tobits in Canada. When Sarah died, both Jean and …

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How Does the Fall of DOMA Impact the FMLA and Other Employee Benefits?

Leave a Comment / DOMA, Family Medical and Leave Act / By max cyril

Unless you’ve been securely wedged under a rock over the past 24 hours, you know that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which had established a federal definition of marriage as a legal union only between one man and one woman. Yesterday, as Justice Anthony Kennedy read the opinion of …

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same-sex marriage

General Motors To Offer Benefits To All Its Married Workers

How Does the Fall of DOMA Impact the FMLA and Other Employee Benefits?

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