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After approval of gay marriage, benefits change
[REBECCA LIPCHITZ]
Since gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts, some companies that had offered health benefits for domestic partners are now offering them only to married couples. The move marks a reversal of sorts, at least on the part of larger employers.
Over the past five years, a large number of major employers in Massachusetts those with 1,000 workers or more began offering health coverage to employees' domestic partners, said Cameron Congdon, principal at Towers Perrin, a Boston human resources consulting firm.
Studies show that giving domestic partners benefits usually costs employers up to an additional 3 percent. Once many companies discovered the relative low cost, they offered benefits for philosophical reasons, Congdon said.
But since gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts on May 17, more than half of the state's companies that had provided the benefit have changed their policies. They no longer offer domestic-partner benefits, providing them only to married couples both gay and straight.
Lowell Sun Online
Since gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts, some companies that had offered health benefits for domestic partners are now offering them only to married couples. The move marks a reversal of sorts, at least on the part of larger employers.
Over the past five years, a large number of major employers in Massachusetts those with 1,000 workers or more began offering health coverage to employees' domestic partners, said Cameron Congdon, principal at Towers Perrin, a Boston human resources consulting firm.
Studies show that giving domestic partners benefits usually costs employers up to an additional 3 percent. Once many companies discovered the relative low cost, they offered benefits for philosophical reasons, Congdon said.
But since gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts on May 17, more than half of the state's companies that had provided the benefit have changed their policies. They no longer offer domestic-partner benefits, providing them only to married couples both gay and straight.
Lowell Sun Online
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