Business Owners/Managers: Anti-Marriage Amendment in Minnesota
Researchers have found that the new generation of highly desirable workers are likely to choose where they want to live before looking for a job, and they cite diversity and inclusion as one of the key factors in their decision.
Opposing the anti-marriage amendment and supporting marriage equality will:
- Further efforts to attract and retain top-notch employees.
- Increase employers’ competitiveness compared to peers in neighboring states with laws that might restrict benefits availability.
- Simplify transfers of employees to states where legal rights for same-sex couples already exist.
- Lead to the elimination of regulations where some states require benefits for same-sex couples and others forbid them or make them difficult to obtain or administer. Marriage equality will provide the maximum flexibility for businesses to define their own benefits policies in all 50 states.
- Increase productivity among workers - enable employees to focus on work rather than on concerns around discrimination and equal pay/benefits.
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