In the same realm of the previously uplifting

[pecunium]

The Feds won't recognise same-sex marriages. It imposes a number of functional discriminations and inequities on same-sex couples, even when their employer recognises the relationship.

Google is trying to fix one aspect of it.

Filling in the Marriage Penalty. To make up for the hit a couple takes by not being able to claim aspects of joint benefits., Google is paying people a little more money.

The bigots will howl. They will say, "look, see... the fags and dykes are getting special treatment." Which is bullshit. They are getting shafted by stupid legalisms. This is redress. Stop punishing them, and Google won't have to pay them extra, so they can have the same amount of money a straight employee has, after taxes.

Comments

[sylphslider.livejournal.com]

Awesome! thanks for the news - it'll brighten the days of all my gay friends. :)

[rumor-esq.livejournal.com]

Goddamn, google makes it so hard sometims to continue to distrust them. They are a crafty corp. But this is a nice thing.

[amberite2112.livejournal.com]

thank you for making that last point. sadly, i think that if a member of the lgbtqqia... community said that, we'd be drowned in the objections.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

They are, as corporations go... tolerably decent. One cannot trust them, per se, but one can like them a moderate amount.

[rumor-esq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's accurate.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Enlightened self-interest seems the appropriate description of their approach.

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

Eh, the bigots will howl no matter what, it's their nature to be offended.

Good on Google, but what's needed is a same-rate tax on all -- I'm not sure which way it would drive revenues, but it'd be fair.

BTW, I'm looking forward to seeing photos of the trip. Be safe.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

There's a class of companies I call semi-good, which includes Google, Whole Foods, Starbucks.