| ID: |
HARP-343 |
| Title: |
Employment Benefits for Gay and Lesbian Employees |
| Source: |
Law Now , v.26(4) F/Mr’02 pg 29-32 |
| Parties: |
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| Dispute Resolution Organ: |
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| Year: |
2002 |
| Pages: |
0 |
| Author(s): |
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| Keywords: |
Canada, dentistry, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, equality before the law, human rights, medical insurance, pension, health, homosexual marriage/homosexual relationship, Alberta, social welfare, gay/lesbian rights, Supreme Court, bereavement leave, family |
| Abstract: |
Gay and lesbian employees in Canada have struggled to secure for their immediate families the employment benefits long available to opposite sex couples. The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Egan and Nesbit v. The Queen marked a turning point for same sex couples helping them to overcome many of these obstacles and to secure a greater measure of equality. Some problems remain – particularly in the province of Alberta. Employment agreements can confer a wide range of benefits such as medical, dental, and optical benefits as well as life insurance, sick leave, pension and bereavement leave benefits. The terms of some of the benefits, bereavement leave, for example, are created entirely within an employment agreement or benefit package. Other benefits, like health care coverage and pension benefits, are governed at least in part by statute. Same sex couples have historically been excluded from both types of benefits. |
| Secured: |
False |
| Download Article: |
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Keywords: Alberta, bereavement leave, Canada, cultural rights, dentistry, economic, employment, equality before the law, family, gay/lesbian rights, health, homosexual marriage/homosexual relationship, human rights, medical insurance, pension, social, social welfare, Supreme Court
