Mercer Select US - Delaware prohibits sexual orientation discrimination in employment and insurance

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Delaware prohibits sexual orientation discrimination in employment and insurance

Delaware has added sexual orientation to its list of discrimination protections, such as gender, age, religion, nationality and handicap. Recently enacted legislation (SB 121) prohibits discrimination in employment, insurance, housing and public accommodation on the basis of an individual's heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality. Religious employers are exempt from the law, in general, except to the extent employment pertains to activities that generate unrelated business taxable income. Employers won't have to extend added benefits to domestic partners. It's uncertain at this time whether this law will require employers that purchase insured coverage for same-sex domestic partners to extend the coverage also to opposite-sex unmarried couples. Insurance regulators may adopt the view that same-sex only coverage is permitted because opposite-sex couples may marry. No official guidance has been issued. (Select News, 20 Aug 2009)

Delaware prohibits sexual orientation discrimination in employment and insurance

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