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Article

28 Feb 2013

Author:
Lawrence Hurley and Aruna Viswanatha, Reuters

Corporations urge Supreme Court to embrace gay marriage [USA]

More than 200 businesses on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a federal law [DOMA] that restricts the definition of marriage to heterosexual unions, in one of corporate America's most prominent efforts to support same-sex marriage...They ranged from technology giants Microsoft Corp and Google Inc to Wall Street financiers such as Citigroup Inc and Goldman Sachs Group Inc to vineyards and yogurt makers in California...Thomson Reuters Corp...also supported the submission...DOMA forces employers to treat employees with same-sex spouses differently from those with opposite-sex partners, the companies said, depriving gay employees of certain healthcare and retirement benefits that may be on offer. The law also creates headaches for human resources officials, they said...The law also forces companies to discriminate, sometimes in contravention of their own internal policies and local laws, when dealing with healthcare plans and other benefits, the companies said.