Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 06:47:38 -0700<BR>
Subject: Edison International Adds DP

<p>Another Fortune 500 company adds domestic partner benefits...

<p>Rosemead, California-based Edison International, parent company of
Southern California Edison, the nation's second-largest
investor-owned utility, has notified employees that they will be able
to obtain benefits for their domestic partners effective January 1,
1998.

<P>Domestic partners, regardless of gender, will be eligible for
medical, dental, vision, mental health/substance abuse benefits, and
the company's employee assistance program.

<P>Edison International included domestic partnership in its bereavement
leave policy in 1996 and has included sexual orientation in its
non-discrimination policy since the early 1990s.

<P>Participating employees will be required to complete a Declaration of
Domestic Partnership form.  This will require the participants to
attest that a) they live together, have done so for at least 12
months before the enrollment period, and intend to live together
permanently; b) are unmarried and unrelated to each other; c) are
responsibile to each other for the direction and management of the
household; and d) are at least 18 years old.

<P>Over the past two years, this listserv [the DP mailing list at
Carnegie Mellon] and its subscribers have been important sources of
information for employees trying to educate Edison International on
this issue.  To the extent that you have been part of the ongoing
discussion, I express my personal thanks.