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Italian Businesses Give More Rights Than the State to Same-Sex Couples

In Italy, more and more companies are offering their homosexual employees the same benefits that are acknowledged to their heterosexual employees. The 14-day paid honeymoon period and other key benefits are indeed now...

by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

In Italy, more and more companies are offering their homosexual employees the same benefits that are acknowledged to their heterosexual employees. The 14-day paid honeymoon period and other key benefits are indeed now provided even to those who would like to enter into same-sex marriages abroad (which are not even recognized in Italy). An Italian call center in Milan was the first company to allow a gay employee time off to get a civil union in Germany, in 2013, effectively sanctioning the practice. When will the Italian state step up and start doing its part?

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