Research consistently shows that unfair and discriminatory work environments cripple an employer’s ability to recruit and retain the best and the brightest. These negative environments also stifle job performance and productivity. In this way, workplace unfairness introduces otherwise avoidable inefficiencies and costs that detract from companies’ bottom line.
Workplace benefits are an important component of employee compensation. As of June 2012benefits packages comprised 31 percent of total employee compensation. Employer-sponsored health insurance in particular is a critical workplace benefit. It helps ensure that employees and their families receive the health care they need during times of illness without having to spend their savings to access that care.
Yet all too often, workers with same-sex domestic partners or spouses do not have the same access to the workplace benefits offered to their peers with opposite-sex partners or spouses. But new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust, released earlier this week, indicate that an increasing number of employers have taken steps to ensure equal benefits for equal work, regardless of sexual orientation.
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