After the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015, some big companies stopped offering domestic-partner benefits, assuming that committed same-sex couples would just get married.
But that's not the case, says the Human Rights Campaign, which is encouraging firms to offer domestic-partner benefits. Starting next year, companies will have to offer benefits for unmarried couples if they want a perfect score on the organization's high-profile LGBT Corporate Equality Index.
Marriage still isn't an option for many gay couples because it's legal to discriminate against openly LGBT couples in many states and foreign countries, said Deena Fidas, director of workplace equality at the Human Rights Campaign, which today unveiled its annual Corporate Equality Index.
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