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Compliance March 9, 2004
Albertson's To Cover Birth Control
March 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Albertson's
grocery store chain must provide contraceptive coverage for
all women as part of the chain's prescription drug employee
health benefit.
Reported by Eric Hazard
The order was handed down as part of a settlement reached with the Boise, Idaho based grocery store chain of a 2001 discrimination complaint filed by the US EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The class-action settlement, approved by a federal judge in Phoenix, Arizona, guarantees contraceptive coverage for all women covered under the company’s health plans, including employees and dependents , according to a NewsRx.com report.
“Reproductive healthcare is really basic health care for women,” said attorney Grace McIlvain, one of the parties who negotiated the settlement. “If a woman is sexually active and she doesn’t have contraception, she can expect to be pregnant 12 to 15 times during her life.”