Starting Thursday, Google will begin paying its gay and lesbian employees who opt for domestic partner benefits more to cover for a tax those employees have to pay, the New York Times reports.
As it is now, Mountain View-based Google offers benefits to the spouses or partners of both straight and gay employees. However, the married straight employees don't get taxed on those extra benefits -- but the gay employees do as part of the federal laws.
The pay raise will be retroactive to the beginning of 2010. Heterosexual employees with long-term partners won't get the raise, because they could marry and therefore get the tax break if they wished...
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