Posted on 07/14/2015 3:51:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A Wal-Mart employee sued the retailer on Tuesday, saying its prior policy of denying health insurance to the spouses of gay employees violated gender discrimination laws.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, seeks nationwide class-action status.
Jackie Cote, who has worked at Walmart stores in Maine and Massachusetts since 1999, said in the lawsuit that her wife, Diana Smithson, developed cancer in 2012 and the denial of insurance led to more than $150,000 in medical debt.
Cote and Smithson were married in Massachusetts in 2004, days after a court ruling made the state the first to allow gay nuptials.
Smithson worked for Wal-Mart until 2008.
Last year, Cote filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a prerequisite to filing an employment discrimination lawsuit. The commission said in January that Wal-Mart violated gender discrimination laws by denying benefits to Smithson.
The commission in recent years has pioneered the argument that employment discrimination against gay people is a form of gender discrimination, since it would not happen if an employee were of the opposite sex, but it has not been vetted by courts.
In Cote's case, for example, the commission said if her spouse were a man or her wife were married to a man, the couple would've received insurance.
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Hey, sorry about your wife, wife.
hmm...gay workers wife? Why does she stay married to him?
I have no clue. All I know is that they obviously both got beaten with the ugly stick as children.
So the “spouse” couldn’t buy insurance privately? And doesn’t Massachusetts require everyone to have insurance or be fined?
May God treat this country as gently as Sodom. I hope America gets it good and hard, because America deserves it.
Wait a minute, is this how lesbians really look?
Blast you, Penthouse!
Amen Brother. This nation deserves whatever it gets.
I am confused. I thought Wal-Mart was liberal on those issues.
Neither. To be a wife you have to have a husband. To be a husband you have to have a penis. So unless one of them has a pecker, there's no wife or husband.
There may be a silver lining in that they can’t breed.
I’ve seen some very good looking lesbians. Not at all the stereotype. Granted, not a lot. Laz would have hit them, me too.
While a disaster from outside ourselves might be more merciful to us, in that we may be more likely to join together to fight it, and perhaps even repent, than if we simply go all Kosovo on each other, I am personally praying that the repentance comes first, so that neither form of disaster may overtake us.
Sure, “gay” marriage was “legal” in MA prior to the plaintiff’s injury, but as the SCOTUS did not “make it constitutional” until recently, her case has a bit of an ex post facto feel to it.
But what do I know?
Did Sodom?
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