Kentucky’s attorney general, Gregory D. Stumbo, issued a formal opinion earlier this week saying that the new plan at the Universities of Louisville and Kentucky to provide health-insurance benefits for their employees’ unmarried domestic partners violates a 2004 marriage amendment to the state’s Constitution. The opinion, however, offers a possible legal solution: Extend benefits to anyone within an employee’s household.
See a recent item on The Chronicle’s News Blog for more details.
Of course, Kentucky is only the latest state to deny health benefits to same-sex partners. In February, The Chronicle reported on a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling prohibiting state agencies and universities from offering health insurance to same-sex partners because it would violate Michigan’s state marriage amendment. The case is pending in the Michigan Supreme Court, and the University of Michigan continues to provide benefits to domestic partners of its employees in the meantime.
But a blogger at The Volokh Conspiracy observes this week that one city in Michigan has already decided to withdraw the benefits it previously provided.
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2 Responses to Domestic-Partner Benefits Unconstitutional
frankbee - November 17, 2011 at 11:28 pm
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We forget that we are also doing business as business is done.As faculty who have earned through much sacrifice the right to wear fine regalia proudly. Id suppose the husband should then be buried in his fishing tackle box. What nerve, We all know how it can feel to show at a meeting and we are not dressed properly, would I want my loved one or partner spouse to feel that way? I wouldn’t send her/him to a business meeting without a nice suit?
Business is Business! and because we abide by standard of intellectual achievement, that doent mean we wear a cardigan and corduroys to a formal function.