More workplaces than at any time are offering domestic-partner health insurance benefits.

More workplaces than at any time are offering domestic-partner health insurance benefits, according to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's WorkNet delineate The number of employers extending equal benefits increased by means of almost 4% between August 2001 and March 31 going from 4285 to 4446

common company that isn't on the list is communications giant Alltel, which provides basic telephone service in several Midwestern and Eastern states as well as cellular phone service. forward May 2 shareholders voted against amending its service policy to specifically prohibit discrimination based forward sexual orientation.

ExxonMobil tried to dodge a ballot on the same issue, notwithstanding that the Securities and Exchange Commission assured that stockholders will be able to suffrage on a similar proposal May 29 Diane Bratcher, head of the gay rights assign places to Equality Project, has been working for the past four years to change the policy--she targeted Exxon plane before its 1999 merger with Mobil, which l to the scrapping of Mobil's gay-inclusive policy. Bratcher says crushing will continue to build forward the oil giant, which (unlike five other major oil companies) does not have an explicit gay-inclusive nondiscrimination policy: "We're hoping that with rime the company will realize that this is absurd and that they're giving the unfit message."

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