Companies, Municipalities and Universities with Domestic Partnership Plans Note: Every institution listed below requires some form of registration for domestic partners before benefits are granted. If this is not true, please tell me. The (R) in the public sector plans means that there is some form of registration granted to non- employees. (For example, Cambridge lets city residents who are not employees register in order to get access to school records of the partner's children.) Note that in many cases when the plan is identical to that provided to spouses, not all aspects may be listed. For example, if company X announces equality of benefits, the press release may not say specifically "medical, dental, life insurance, relocation, and adoption benefits" or may not say that the company does not have a legal plan for any employees. A "(=)" means the rest of the notations are interesting but not really important (except for "(O)"). Public Sector Plans Key: (A) Access to school records (B) Bereavement and family leave policies (C) County plan (c) City plan (D) Dental Insurance Only (f) Family leave policy for domestic partners is same as married partners under the Family Medical Leave Act (f-) two different policies exist for family leave (M) Medical Benefits (P) Parenting leave (p) Pension benefits (R) Registration of partnership (r) use of recreational areas (S) Sick Leave (s) State Plan (T) Tax benefits for companies in the city which recognize DPs (V) visitation in prisons, hospitals, etc. (=) no benefits available to spouses are excluded (-) some benefits available to spouses are excluded (?) specifics of plan unknown [n] number of employees Government Benefits Key Alameda, CA (c) (B) (S) Ann Arbor, MI (c) (B) (S) Atlanta, GA (c) (R) Austin, TX (c) (S) (M) Bay Area Rapid Transit [2,600] (B) (M) Berkeley, CA [1,550] (c) (R) (B) (P) (S) (M) Boston, MA (B) Burlington, VT (c) (?) Cambridge, MA (c) (A) (B) (M) (P) (=) Chicago, IL (c) (B) East Lansing, MI (c) (B) (S) (M) Ithaca, NY (c) (R) Laguna Beach, CA [560] (c) (R) Los Angeles, CA [46,000] (c) (B) (S) Madison, WI (c) (R) (B) (S) Marin County, CA (C) (?) Massachusetts [23,800] (s) (B) (V) Minneapolis, MN [6,000] (c) (R) (B) (S) (M) New Orleans, LA (c) (M) (R) New York, NY [417,000] (c) (B) (P) (R) Ontario Canada (M) (p) Ottawa, Canada (?) San Francisco, CA [23,000] (c) (R) (M) San Mateo County, CA (C) (S) (D) Santa Cruz, CA [650] (c) (B) (S) (M) Seattle Metro [4,000] (C) (B) (S) (M) (=) Seattle, WA [11,000] (c) (B) (S) (M) Shorewood Hills, WI (c) (r) Takoma Park, MD (c) (B) (S) Toronto, Ontario (?) Travis County, TX (C) (B) (S) Washington, DC [48,000] (c) (M) West Hollywood, CA [125] (c) (R) (B) (S) (M) West Palm Beach, FL (c) (B) Yukon Territory (?) A 1991 ruling by a British Columbia court extended Canada's National Health Insurance to same-sex partners. A 1992 court order granted medical and pension benefits to employees of the Ontario government. Private Sector Plans Key: (A) Adoption benefits (B) Bereavement and family leave policies (b) Child care (C) COBRA benefits (D) Dental Insurance (f) Family leave policy for domestic partners is same as married partners under the Family Medical Leave Act (f-) two different policies exist for family leave (L) Dependent Life Insurance (M) Medical Benefits (P) Parenting leave (r) use of health and fitness programs (R) relocation policy (S) Sick Leave (U) Policy derived from collective bargaining (v) Vision medical insurance included (O) benefits offered to same-sex and opposite-sex couples (=) no benefits available to spouses are excluded (-) some benefits available to spouses are excluded (?) specifics of plan unknown [n] number of employees Company Benefits AMTRAK (?) ASK Software Corp. (Ingres, Data 3) [2,058] (M) (O) (f) Adamation Inc., Oakland CA [10] (O) American Automobile Association [3,200] (?) American Civil Liberties Union, San Francisco Office (?) American Friends Service Committee [350] (?) American Psychological Association [1,500] (?) Apple Computer Corp. [11,500] (M) (A) (B) (b) (C) (D) (f) (L) (O) (P) (R) (r) (S) (v) (=) Ben & Jerry's [300] (?) (=) Beth Israel Medical Center, New York (?) Borland [986] (D) (M) Boston's Children's Hospital (D) (L) (M) (f) (=) Boston Hotel Workers Union (?) Boston Globe [3445] (M) (B) Cadance (D) (M) (v) (O) Canadian Press/Broadcast News [440] (B) (D) (M) (U) Columbia University clerical workers, NYC (B) (U) Committee of Interns and Residents Staff Union, NYC (U) Consumers United Insurance Company [15] (?) DEC-Belgium (D) (M) (O) (-) Episcopal Church of Newark (M) Frame Technology [303] (D) (M) (O) Greenpeace (?) HBO [1600] (M) (?) Human Rights Campaign Fund (?) IDG [530] (M) (f) Interleaf [800] (D) (M) (=) Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund (?) Levi Strauss and Company [31,000] (B) (U) (L) (M) (=) Lotus Development Corporation [3,500] (B) (M) (R) (=) MCA [18,000] (M) (C) Microsoft [12,000] (M) (R) (S) Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (M) Minnesota Public Radio [218] (?) Montefiore Medical Center, New York City (?) Mt. Sinai Hospital Nurses, New York City (B) (U) Museum of Modern Art, New York City (B) (U) NYNEX workers (NY/NJ telephonecompany) [93,800] (U) National Organization for Women (?) National Public Radio (M) (=) Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers (several locals in NY and elsewhere) (U) Oracle (C) (D) (M) (v) Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (law firm) [761] (M) Planned Parenthood (D) (M) (?) Quark, Inc. [375] (M) Santa Cruz Operation [1,300] (O) Seattle Mental Health Institute (?) San Francisco Giants (M) Silicon Graphics Inc. [2,099] (A) (B) (D) (M) (R) (r) (=) Sun Microsystems [11,000] (7/93) (B) (D) (M) (O) Sybase [2100] (B) (D) (M) (O) (P) (R) Thinking Machines [500] (M) (B) (D) (v) (R) Viacom [5,000] (M) (C?) Unitarian Universalist Association (?) Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (?) Village Voice newspaper [223] (?) Warner Bros. (M) WGBH [800] (M) WQED (M) (=) Woodward and Lothrop Department Stores[16,000] (?) Colleges and Universities Key: (B) Bereavement and Sick Leave (c) child care (F) Faculty/staff only (f) Family leave policy for domestic partners is same as married partners under the Family Medical Leave Act (f-) two different policies exist for family leave (H) Student housing only (h) Home purchase loan (I) informal policy -- not in writing (ID) issues university identification (P) pension plan (M) offers medical benefits (T) tuition waiver (O) benefits offered to same-sex and opposite-sex couples (S) students only (=) no benefits available to spouses are excluded (-) some benefits available to spouses are excluded (?) specifics of plan unknown [m/n] number of faculty/students Institution Benefits Albert Einstein College of Medicine (?) Bowdoin College (H) (S) (P) Brown University (S) (P) Carnegie Mellon University[616/5000] (ID) (B) (f-) (O) (-) Clark University (B) (D) (M) (T) Colby College, ME [140/1880] (ID) (T) Columbia University [medicalbenefits 1/94] (H) (ID) (M) (P) Dartmouth College [proposed only 8/10/93] (M) DeAnza Community College (M) Georgia State University [746/24247] (S) (P) Grinnell College, IA [131/1291] (H) Harvard Law School (H) Harvard University (M) Middlebury College (M) (O) (=) MIT [1000/9564] (F) (f) (M) Moorehead State University (P) New York University (M) (P) North Dakota University [532/9711] (H) (S) Northeastern [effective 1/94] (M) Oberlin College, OH [185/1783] (ID) (T) Occidental College, CA [125/1680] (ID) (T) Ohio State University [3097/51,000] (B) (P) Pitzer College [80/750] (F) (M) Ponoma College (F) (ID) (h) (M) (T) (=) Princeton University [671/6200] (ID) (H) Rutgers University [1964/48,000] (ID) (?) SUNY at Purchase, NY [129/2999] (H) Stanford University [650/6500] (S) (ID) (M) (D) Swarthmore College [135/1320] (ID) (T) Swathmore College [135/1320] (M) (?) Union Theological Seminary (H) (S) (P) University of British Columbia (M) Univ. of CA at Irvine [957/15,776] (ID) Univ. of CA at Santa Cruz [405/2036] (ID) Univ. of Chicago, IL [120/9000] (ID) (F) (H) (M) (T) Univ. of Colorado [4500/41,689] (ID) (H) (M) (S) Univ. of Iowa [1600/28,000] (M) Univ. of Michigan [3035/42,673] (ID) (S) (P) University of Minnesota (B) (c) (M*) (P) University of New Brunswick (M) Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA [3447/34,336] (ID) (B) (T) (-) University of Toronto (ID) (M) (D) (T) Univ. of Texas [9967/145,655] (ID) University of Vermont (M) University of Waterloo (M) University of Windsor (M) (T) University of Wisconsin[7200/162,330] (H) Wesleyan University [284/1833] (ID) (T) (H) Wilfred Laruer University (M) (T) Wright State University (B) (M,S)(ID) Yale University [2239/9800] (ID) (I) York University (M) (*) The University of Minnesota was unable to get an insurance carrier to write policies for domestic partners. The University has instead issued stipends of up to $2500 to apply toward the purchase of individual health and dental insurance policies.