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FedEx to Offer DP Benefits
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          May 26, 2010
          
        
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Shipping giant FedEx announced that it will begin offering health insurance benefits to employees' same-sex domestic partners, The [Memphis, Tenn.] Commercial Appeal reports.

The benefits will kick in for the Memphis-based company beginning January 1, 2011.

The move will most likely change FedEx's ranking on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index -- currently 70% out of a possible 100. Rival UPS, which has offered same-sex DP benefits since 2004, has a perfect 100% rating from HRC. 
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