The new policy goes into effect next month.
over a self-induced abortion earlier this week, although charges have since been dropped.
Yelp says its health insurance already supports abortion care, but its new policy extends coverage beyond that. According to the, employees will soon be able to provide receipts to their health insurance provider showing proof of travel to an abortion clinic. The insurance company will then reimburse the employee directly while maintaining their privacy, as the process won’t involve Yelp at all.
“This new benefit allows our U.S. employees and their dependents to have equitable access to reproductive care” “We’ve long been a strong advocate for equality in the workplace, and believe that gender equality cannot be achieved if women’s healthcare rights are restricted,” Miriam Warren, the chief diversity officer at Yelp, said in a statement to. “As a remote-first company with a distributed workforce, this new benefit allows our U.S. employees and their dependents to have equitable access to reproductive care, regardless of where they live.
Last year, Yelp says it double-matched employee donations to organizations fighting the restrictive abortion law in Texas and other states. And in 2018, the platform says it worked to ensure reproductive care providers with abortion services were distinguishable fromYelp isn’t the first company to respond to the abortion law passed in Texas (
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