The legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015 corrected a number of benefit inequities for LGBT employees,including:

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Before marriage equality was the law, bereavement leave routinely granted to an employee to deal with the death of a loved one was often not provided to an LGBT employee when his or her life partner died, even though the couple may have been together for 30 years or more. Sick leave routinely granted and, in many places, allowed to be gifted to other employees in need was often not given when the employee was LGBT and the family was the employee's life partner. (See Exhibit 10.9, "Workplace LGBT Employees.") The up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to deal with an employee's adoption or birth of children, medical issues of the employee, the employee's spouse or children under the Family Medical Leave Act discussed in Chapter 16, was originally not available to gay and lesbian families.

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