Instead SAS concentrates on creating an enjoyable work atmosphere and implementing innovative programs like domestic partner benefits.
Ohio passed a law this year to preclude giving domestic partner benefits to state employees.
Other measures include family-friendly benefits like flexible work, adoption assistance and domestic partner benefits.
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Q-10: Can a registered domestic partner itemize deductions if his or her partner claims a standard deduction?
There have been petitions in several states in opposition to marital rights and domestic partner rights for gay couples.
Another telling factor that we could not include, given our methodological constraints, was the existence of domestic partner registries.
The request never mentioned Lee or the status of a domestic partner.
But as gay couples campaign to get some of these rights, unmarried heterosexual couples are gaining a new option, too: domestic partner registries.
Further, each domestic partner must pay self-employment tax on her half of business earnings, a situation from which a special provision protects opposite-sex couples.
Someone with a domestic partner might use a living trust, because it is harder for family members to challenge a trust than a will.
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That would be if you are married to someone of the same sex as you or a registered domestic partner in a community property state.
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Enrollment rates are low, 1% to 2% of total employees--closer to 2% if the company's definition of domestic partner includes opposite-sex couples, not just same-sex couples.
Some companies extend domestic partner benefits to one area, like bereavement leave, as a test, says Ilse de Veer, a benefits consultant with Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
The Virginia Bureau of Insurance does not allow Virginia-based companies to offer domestic partner health insurance benefits to same-sex couples (although companies that are self-insured can do so).
The LKCM Aquinas Funds do not restrict companies that offer domestic partner benefits, and instead focus on issues such as race and gender equality, environmental practices, and human rights.
In the "Work Life" section of the Human Rights Campaign's Web site, under domestic partner benefits, the Campaign lists major companies and public sector employers who are on board.
Also killed were Marra's mother, Harriet Nicholson, who was also British but lived in Portugal, and domestic partner, Helen Tamaki, who was a citizen of New Zealand but lived in Sydney.
With Chrysler now part of the German DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ), Ford is the only potential domestic partner for Nissan and Renault in North America.
Q-17: If a registered domestic partner adopts the child of his or her partner as a second parent or co-parent, may the adopting parent claim the adoption credit for the qualifying adoption expenses he or she pays or incurs to adopt the child?
If you add a domestic partner to your policy, you must pay income taxes on the portion of the premium for your partner that your employer pays. (By contrast, you aren't taxed on benefits for a legal spouse or children.) So if your partner has insurance through his or her company, it's probably best to keep the two separate policies.
Mr. Irving: We've added domestic-partner benefits to the company's health plan.
"There are lots of people in this boat who think that because they have domestic-partner coverage, they're set, " says Mary Kesel of Benefit Advocates, a Winston-Salem, N.
He became a leader on public-housing reform, voted for gay and lesbian domestic-partner health benefits and executed a complicated straddle on abortion--nominally pro-choice but against federal funding and late-term abortions.
While most of the major airlines long resisted giving domestic-partner benefits, now, Caplan notes wryly, you'll see them aggressively marketing their services to gay consumers at San Francisco's annual pride parade.
Most of the victims we read about in India are largely uneducated women from poorer backgrounds - reinforcing a general perception that domestic violence or intimate partner violence is more pervasive in groups of a lower socio-economic status.
She had left a friend's house at about 04:00 GMT, before police were called following reports of a domestic disturbance at her ex-partner's house, at about 04:30 GMT.
Typically, it enters a new market through imports and exports, then expands domestically with a partner and finally acquires the domestic operations wholly if it sees sustained growth potential.
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Since US Airways' route network is made up largely of short-haul routes, US Airways customers typically redeem awards on partner airlines with more flights to domestic and international hot spots.
"We need to change the law urgently to save lives, " she told peers, and give women and men at risk of domestic violence the right to know if their partner has any previous convictions.
To qualify, the service member and his or her partner must sign a "declaration of domestic partnership" attesting to the exclusive and committed relationship.
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