Home Depot to cover gay partners
By Jennifer Walker, CBS.MarketWatch.com from the Web, September 3, 2004
CHICAGO -- Home Depot said Thursday that health insurance will be available to employees' same-sex domestic partners beginning next
year.
The country's largest do-it-yourself retailer said eligible employees can start signing up their partners next month.
The Atlanta-based company, which has been criticized since June for insuring employees' pets but not their same-sex domestic partners, added that the benefits revision had been in the works for about a year.
Spokesman Jerry Shields said the policy does not extend to opposite-sex domestic partners and that Home Depot "will concentrate on the announcement at hand."
Various companies refuse coverage for opposite-sex couples on the premise that they're legally allowed to marry in all states.
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