Wow, marriage equality in Florida! We cats are excited, but also, as the saying goes, curious. What happens to Sunshine State employers who have so far avoided offering medical coverage to the partners of their gay workers?
We're particularly wondering about firms that have made painstaking efforts to restrict coverage to "your spouse in accordance with Florida law." Well, as of today, Florida law means all spouses. Hm. Sounds like just deserts for bigoted boards of directors, we'd say (although we have sympathy for the HR folks on the front line who are, at the moment, caught in the middle).
Amazingly, some of these companies have either landed, or yearn to land, on famous lists of great places to work. In our humble opinion, any employer that bends over backwards to exclude, isolate and discriminate against its gay and lesbian employees is not "great" at all. We cats HISS (but we also PURR).
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