Business

Google announced on Thursday that it will begin compensating gay and lesbian employees for an extra tax they must pay when their partners receive domestic partner health benefits -- a tax that married straight couples are not required to pay. [ Read more → ]

McDonald’s is running a new ad on French TV that features a gay teen and his father, who is unaware of his son’s orientation. The ad shows a gay teen seated at a McDonald's table, talking to his boyfriend on his cell phone. He hangs up when he sees his father coming. The father, unaware of his son's sexual... [ Read more → ]

Shipping giant FedEx announced Tuesday it will begin offering health insurance to same-sex domestic partners. The benefit won't become available until January 1, 2012, and while the company has yet to finalize many of the details, it has announced the expansion of its benefits program... [ Read more → ]

The gay dating website Mancrunch.com is crying foul on CBS for rejecting a commercial that it had hoped would run during the Super Bowl on February 7. In a letter to ManCrunch.com, CBS Standards and Practices said it had reviewed the proposed ad, which would... [ Read more → ]

The number of businesses with perfect ratings based on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workplace policies and benefits rose by twenty percent in the past twelve months — despite the serious economic downturn — according to a new report released Monday by the Human Rights... [ Read more → ]

The International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (IGLCC) unveiled the results of the first edition of the International Business Equality Index today, announcing BT Group, followed by IBM and The Dow Chemical Company, as the most gay-friendly corporations world-wide. The Index is a measurement... [ Read more → ]