Levi Strauss to reimburse abortion travel for workers

May 4 (Reuters) - Levi Strauss & Co mentioned on Wednesday it would reimburse travel expenses for its full- and part-time staff who have to journey to a different state for well being care companies, together with abortions.

The attire company greatest known for its denims is the newest U.S. firm to supply the profit as numerous states clamp down on entry to abortions.

And now, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom seems to be set to vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade choice that legalized abortion nationwide, in accordance with a leaked initial draft majority opinion printed by Politico on Monday. learn extra

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"Given what is at stake, business leaders need to make their voices heard and act to guard the health and well-being of our employees. Meaning protecting reproductive rights," the company mentioned in a statement.

Other firms have pledged to offer comparable assist to their U.S. employees who need to travel out of states like Texas and Oklahoma that have restricted access to abortion services.

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), the second-largest U.S. personal employer, on Monday informed staff it's going to pay as much as $4,000 in journey expenses yearly for non-life threatening medical therapies, amongst them elective abortions. read more

Crowd-sourced evaluate platform Yelp, Inc (YELP.N) stated it'll start in Could to cowl bills for its staff and their dependents who must journey to another state for abortion companies. read more

One of the leading Hollywood expertise companies, UTA, stated it might reimburse journey expenses related to receiving girls's reproductive well being providers that are not accessible in an employee's state of residence.

"We’re doing this to help the correct to decide on that has been a bedrock of settled regulation for nearly half a century," Jeremy Zimmer, UTA's chief executive, wrote in a employees memo Wednesday that was seen by Reuters.

Citigroup Inc (C.N) became in March the first major U.S. bank to make a similar dedication. read extra

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

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