Levi Strauss to reimburse abortion journey for workers

Could 4 (Reuters) - Levi Strauss & Co stated on Wednesday it will reimburse travel bills for its full- and part-time employees who need to journey to a different state for well being care services, together with abortions.

The attire firm finest known for its jeans is the most recent U.S. company to offer the profit as numerous states clamp down on access to abortions.

And now, the U.S. Supreme Court looks set to vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade determination that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a leaked preliminary draft majority opinion published by Politico on Monday. read more

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"Given what's at stake, enterprise leaders have to make their voices heard and act to guard the health and well-being of our workers. Which means defending reproductive rights," the corporate stated in a press release.

Different firms have pledged to offer similar help to their U.S. employees who need to travel out of states like Texas and Oklahoma which have restricted access to abortion services.

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), the second-largest U.S. personal employer, on Monday instructed staff it should pay as much as $4,000 in journey expenses yearly for non-life threatening medical therapies, among them elective abortions. read extra

Crowd-sourced assessment platform Yelp, Inc (YELP.N) stated it can begin in Could to cowl expenses for its workers and their dependents who must travel to another state for abortion providers. read more

One of the leading Hollywood expertise businesses, UTA, said it would reimburse travel expenses associated to receiving girls's reproductive well being companies that aren't accessible in an employee's state of residence.

"We’re doing this to support the precise to choose that has been a bedrock of settled legislation for nearly half a century," Jeremy Zimmer, UTA's chief executive, wrote in a staff memo Wednesday that was seen by Reuters.

Citigroup Inc (C.N) became in March the first major U.S. bank to make an analogous commitment. learn extra

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Reporting by Doyinsola Oladipo; Daybreak Chmielewski in Los Angeles; Enhancing by Anna Driver, Alexandra Hudson, Kirsten Donovan

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