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Well jeez... I'm single. Married people get tax benefits that I don't get... my employer should pay me more to compensate. I'm going to have to take this one up with my boss.
My employer pays me more than married couples to compensate for health insurance. They pay about 3 grand a year extra in health premiums for married people. I asked for the 3 grand on my paychecks.
Actually, they aren't paying them more or me more. We are getting paid the same amount. Just receiving compensation different.
Whites pay more of their income to taxes than Blacks, I suppose that this means that all Whites in my company should expect a pay increase to cover our burden.
Last edited by SouthBound47; 07-02-2010 at 03:12 PM..
Hahahahaha. The irony in this thread is laughable. Thanks to republicans and other right-wingers it is perfectly legal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in most of the United States. You know how they start screaming about "special rights" whenever gays advocate for being treated equally under the law?
There is no federal law preventing an employer from firing someone because he or she is homosexual (or heterosexual) or from paying them unequally solely based on sexuality. Eric Holder couldn't do anything about this no matter how much he might want to. Only 20 states have written sexual orientation into their anti-discrimination civil rights statutes.
It's pretty darn funny though that for probably the first time in the history of the US when this perceived discrimination benefits a homosexual that the same right-wingers come out of the closet screaming about the injustice and demanding "special" rights for heterosexuals.
Yahoo, here I come. I will no longer be using Google as my search engine. I had switched to Google from Yahoo as my primary search engine a number of years ago. No more. They are history.
Whites pay more of their income to taxes than Blacks, I suppose that this means that all Whites in my company should expect a pay increase to cover our burden.
Nice try, but fail.
Why should straight Google employees care? The net salary is the same, and neither gay singles nor straight singles can get the salary bump.
Why should straight Google employees care? The net salary is the same, and neither gay singles nor straight singles can get the salary bump.
They don't.
My boyfriend has worked for Google for most of his career and does very well from it. He works at a fairly major office with quite a few gay employees (many in committed relationships) and absolutely no one has a problem with it.
Basically, if a Google employee is covering their partner (who, even if they are married in Massachusetts, Iowa, or Vermont, are not considered married under federal tax law) under insurance, they pay an average of $1000 a year that a married couple would not have to. Google is simply covering that cost for those that do not have the ability to get those benefits. While I have the option of being covered very cheaply under my boyfriend's healthcare plan, we wouldn't qualify for the Google sponsored "tax break" because we have the option of getting married if we choose to. It's not that difficult to understand.
Why do you conservatives care what a private company does for their employees?
Google offers excellent benefits to all of their employees- gay or straight, single or married or in a LTR, regardless of age or gender. This is just one more way to continue attracting the best employees to increase productivity and continue to CREATE JOBS. God forbid.
When did they put the sexual orientation question on the application forms? How would Google even know that a person was gay to be able to pay them more? If they are doing either of these things they leave themselves wide open for law suits.
When did they put the sexual orientation question on the application forms? How would Google even know that a person was gay to be able to pay them more? If they are doing either of these things they leave themselves wide open for law suits.
When the Googler applies for health insurance for their partner, that will factor them in for the tax break.
Keep in mind that this does NOT cover single homosexuals. Just those that are prevented from being considered married by federal tax law.
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