Would you be willing to talk a bit about procurement and tech policy? It would be interesting to hear the perspective of someone who’s had to personally deal with the failures in these policy areas
Sure. One thing I’ll say is that the book “Recoding America” goes into a lot of this from the federal perspective and, though I’ve not been able to to back to it since November 2024, it was very interesting and thoughtful, and recommend it as a resource and read.
The main thing to keep in mind is that most procurement and tech policy, from the feds on down, was probably last updated or modified on a large scale prior to 2000, and generally comes from a starting point of having to meet numerous local, state, and federal requirements for how things have to work in terms of qualified vendors and elements of the proposal and services and goods provided, etc. Things like minimum number of bids, priority given to specific kinds of vendors (minority and women business enterprises, veterans, nonprofits, etc.) Additionally, there’s restrictions on what funds can be used for, so in addition to justifying the usage, you may only be able to pick from a small list of pre-selected vendors, and the pricing reflects that.
The other thing to keep in mind is that the government hates innovation and surprises in procurement and tech. They don’t like it really allow things like “human-centered” design or adjusting the proposals once submitted. So it’s not uncommon that a service or product, especially in tech, is outdated or inadequate before it even reaches a delivery stage because everything is locked in, in terms of deliverables.
Additionally, there’s so many different oversight and review bodies - for NYC, apart from in-house budget and procurement people at an agency, plus in-house legal staff, there’s OMB, the City Comptroller, the Law Department, the Procurement Policy Board, the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, potentially the Department of Investigation. Depending on what’s being requested, DCAS and OTI (the city’s IT agency) can also get involved. Some have more of a direct role, some just determine policy. There’s mandatory review periods which add weeks and months on to things, so that it’s not uncommon for a contract over $100,000 to take, from the start of the process to finally awarding and actually getting the service or good, 12-18 months.
OTI doesn’t like the cloud, and doesn’t buy the full Microsoft Office package, so you’re limited with what programs or apps you can use, and if you want something beyond the basic standard you have to request and justify and also determine how many licenses you need.
For one of the biggest tech projects our agency did, they contacted with a company to set it up and then had no plan or option for how to use ongoing support and essentially fired all the staff who had worked on it, so the tech product is difficult to use and our in-house tech staff struggle to stay on top of things.
The city in particular is also notorious for being late in paying vendors, which, considering how many of them are supposed to be companies and people who have historically not been used before or are marginalized, isn’t great.
Some of the requirements make sense and are unavoidable - after all, it’s tax dollars being used, so some level of oversight and accountability is both expected and desirable. The issue is that all the requirements and oversight regularly don’t help avoid corruption or discrimination/exclusion and also make it so difficult and slow to actually get anything done. And this affects everything, from building housing to doing environmental testing to public health outreach to even just updating a website.
And the city council, along with the state legislature and congress etc, are adding new requirements and benchmarks all the time, so stuff just keeps building up.
There’s a way to streamline and reform these policies while still implementing accountability and oversight to minimize or pursue corruption and waste. But it rarely gets discussed.
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Growing into the Job, Post 373: Evolution Concerns
We’re just worried that her growth chart is beginning to look logarithmic came the message, the most recent in a series of alarmist communiques from a technician at their daughter company in the US.
Kristina Zhestakova had received the first text as she’d been talking with prospective recruits, young women in their second and third year. She was now between meetings, walking down the hallways of The Medical University of Warsaw. The school was her alma mater and she recognized most of the landmarks, the twists and turns of the old passages, the labs and classrooms. Many of the professors were new; the plaques on the office doors had been largely replaced by female names. Twenty years, she thought with a nod, had brought on some welcome changes.
You are working on the sequencing data? she replied, relying on the translation software of KOLECTV’s encrypted messaging app. Her English had improved over the last couple decades, ever since she’d been tasked with establishing the company’s first North American facility on the island off Mexico's coast, but she still preferred writing in her native Polish. She was glad this technician - Marcia was her name - used the secure proprietary messenger as she’d been asked; not all at this upstart American company Evolution Pharmaceuticals did.
Yes we have the bloodwork. Working on it but it’s complicated, came the tech's next message. They all knew that MM-1A’s eldritch origins complicated things, making the polymerase chain reactions difficult and keeping them from using the Sanger or NGS. The witches and their ways tended to do that, make everything either too easy or too much of a chore. But KOLECTV’s science had learned and become powerful. We’ve already identified the location of the breath and the voice.
Yes. Doctor Zhestakova’s heels <click-click-clicked> on the tiled hallways of the medical school. Ostensibly, she was still, in title, Senior Vice President of Biotechnology at Gray Global Enterprises, once an American shipping empire that was now little more than a shell company for a good-sized group of the collective’s holdings. KOLECTV, technically, was one of those. However, in the early days, like a tick it had drained GGE’s resources and quickly came to dwarf its parent company and now controlled its interests. It was now an enormous, if still shadowy, network with tendrils not only in the medical and scientific industries around the world, but deep in other businesses, banking and politics.
The hope was that, soon - especially after the victorious results in the recent American elections - KOLECTV would finally shed the false auspices of GGE and begin to reveal itself. It would grow in power tenfold, it knew, when it could step out of the shadows on its six-inch stilettos and begin to claim its empire. When it is done send the sequencing package to my team at Coronado.
Of course Doctor. We’ve also located multiple other newly active gene loci, of unknown phenotype expression, the technician’s next message explained. Dr. Zhestakova knew what that meant, other potential abilities budding within the subject.
She’d spent many of her early years with the company, after being sent to America soon after medical school for project “Bridesmaid”, and then setting up and studying at their island research facility, KOLECTV’s first in the New World. The project, nearly twenty years prior to today, had ultimately resulted in the takeover of GGE and the facility was now one of many jewels in the crown of the movement. Dr. Zhestakova had been not only an operative (088) in that operation and an integral player in building the prototypes for what the women of the new world could be, but an early beneficiary subject (Program, 3133j) as well.
Send it all. But tell no one else, for now. I want Coronado to go over it so we can develop an isolation plan. Dr. Zhestakova knew that Oksana and others in KOLECTV’s higher ranks were made nervous by her tendencies towards self-autonomy and transgression; she’d seen the old files they kept on her. She knew that her independent streak, coupled with her Program-gifted intelligence and with what they called her “relative lack of empathy” was seen as both a powerful opportunity for the movement but something they struggled to keep in check. She knew her file also described her tendencies for excessive behaviors and indulgences. Those, over the past decade or so, she’d made good progress in controlling, reining in.
She could really use some vodka.
The height? The explosion in strength? We’re not worried? came the technician’s concern..
Fuck the height and strength. I’ve seen the monsters they’d made, the failed experiments in Siberia and Kazakhstan. That can be dealt with when the time comes. Let the other abilities manifest first, so we learn, glean, farm. No we are not yet concerned.
Others would be, she knew. Others would be very concerned. Dr. Zhestakova could only do so much, but she had been trying her best to keep the snowballing irregularities in Project MM-1A's case “under the radar”, as they might say in the US. If they were to attract notice, the project could get shut down; Kristina knew there was so much potential to be culled, so much that could be achieved. Just imagine, she found herself thinking, an army of superwomen not only bigger, taller, stronger than any man alive, like we’d planned…
No, the possibilities might go well beyond that.
…but impervious to heat, and harm, and bullets…
And in a rare moment of heart-pounding speculation…
Imagine an army of women that can fly…
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for more on the enigmatic, psychopathic and high-functioning alcoholic Dr. Zhestakova, as well as “Project Bridesmaid”, please see required reading “Trophy”
When it comes to protecting the environment, nearly any social system would be better than the one we have now. Capitalism is the first social arrangement in human history to endanger the survival of our species and life on earth in general. Capitalism provides incentives to exploit and destroy nature, and creates an atomized society that is incapable of protecting the environment. Under capitalism, ecocide is literally a right. Environmental protections are “trade barriers”; preventing a corporation from clear-cutting land it has purchased is a violation of private property and free enterprise. Companies are allowed to make millions of tons of plastic, most of it for throwaway packaging, despite the fact that they have no plan for disposing of it and not even any idea what will happen with it all; plastic does not decompose, so plastic trash is filling up the ocean and appearing in the bodies of marine creatures, and it may last millions of years. To save endangered rhinoceros from poachers, game wardens have started sawing off their valuable horns; but the poachers are killing them anyway because once they are extinct, the value of the few remaining bits of rhinoceros ivory will go through the roof.
And despite all this, universities have the audacity to indoctrinate students to believe that a communal society would be incapable of protecting the environment because of the so-called tragedy of the commons. This myth is often explained thus: imagine a society of sheepherders owns the grazing land in common. They benefit collectively if each grazes a smaller number of sheep, because the pasture stays fertile, but any one of them benefits individually if he overgrazes, because he will receive a greater share of the product — thus collective ownership supposedly leads to depletion of resources. The historical examples intended to corroborate this theory are generally drawn from colonial and postcolonial situations in which oppressed people, whose traditional forms of organization and stewardship have been undermined, are crowded onto marginal land, with predictable results. The sheepherding scenario assumes a situation that is extremely rare in human history: a collective comprised of atomized, competitive individuals who value personal wealth over social bonds and ecological health, and lack social arrangements or traditions that can guarantee sustainable, shared use.
Capitalism has already caused the biggest wave of extinctions to hit the planet since an asteroid collision killed off the dinosaurs. To prevent global climate change from bringing about total ecological collapse, and stop pollution and overpopulation from killing off most of the planet’s mammals, birds, amphibians, and marine life, we have to abolish capitalism, hopefully within the next few decades. Human-caused extinctions have been apparent for at least a hundred years now. The greenhouse effect has been widely acknowledged for nearly two decades. The best that the reputed ingenuity of free enterprise has come up with is carbon trading, a ridiculous farce. Likewise, we cannot trust some world government to save the planet. A government’s first concern is always its own power, and it builds the base of this power upon economic relationships. The governing elite must maintain a privileged position, and that privilege depends on the exploitation of other people and of the environment.
Localized, egalitarian societies linked by global communication and awareness are the best chance for saving the environment. Self-sufficient, self-contained economies leave almost no carbon footprint. They don’t need petroleum to ship goods in and waste out, or huge amounts of electricity to power industrial complexes to produce goods for export. They must produce most of their energy themselves via solar, wind, biofuel, and similar technologies, and rely more on what can be done manually than on electrical appliances. Such societies pollute less because they have fewer incentives to mass production and lack the means to dump their byproducts on others’ land. In place of busy airports, traffic-clogged highways, and long commutes to work, we can imagine bicycles, buses, interregional trains, and sailboats. Likewise, populations will not spiral out of control, because women will be empowered to manage their fertility and the localized economy will make apparent the limited availability of resources.
An ecologically sustainable world would have to be anti-authoritarian, so no society could encroach on its neighbors to expand its resource base; and cooperative, so societies could band together in self-defense against a group developing imperialist tendencies. Most importantly, it would demand a common ecological ethos, so people would respect the environment rather than regarding it simply as raw material to exploit. We can begin building such a world now, by learning from ecologically sustainable indigenous societies, sabotaging and shaming polluters, spreading a love for nature and an awareness of our bioregions, and establishing projects that allow us to meet our needs for food, water, and energy locally.
Below is a detailed guide of our targeted consumer boycotts, divestment and pressure campaigns. Help us spread the word to maximize our impa
We have split these targets into four sections:
1. Consumer boycott targets - The BDS movement calls for a complete boycott of these brands carefully selected due to the company's proven record of complicity in Israeli apartheid.
2. Divestment targets - The BDS movement is pressuring governments, institutions and investment funds to exclude and divest from as many complicit companies as practical, especially weapons manufacturers, banks, and companies listed in the UN database of business involved in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise, as well as the WhoProfits and AFSC Investigate databases of companies enabling the occupation. Below we give some of the targets we are campaigning against.
3. Pressure (non-boycott) targets - The BDS movement actively calls for pressure campaigns against these brands and services due to their complicity in Israeli apartheid. We have not, on strategic grounds, called for a boycott of these brands and services, instead we strategically call on supporters and institutions to mount other forms of pressure on them until they end their complicity in Israeli apartheid.
4. Organic boycott targets - The BDS movement did not initiate these grassroots boycott campaigns but is in support of them due to these brands openly supporting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.
1. Consumer boycott targets:
Siemens
Siemens (Germany) is the main contractor for the Euro-Asia Interconnector, an Israel-EU submarine electricity cable that is planned to connect Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory to Europe. Siemens-branded electrical appliances are sold globally.
PUMA
PUMA (Germany) sponsors the Israel Football Association, which governs teams in Israel’s illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
Carrefour
Carrefour (France) is a genocide enabler. Carrefour-Israel has supported Israeli soldiers partaking in the unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza with gifts of personal packages. In 2022, it entered a partnership with the Israeli company Electra Consumer Products and its subsidiary Yenot Bitan, both of which are involved in grave violations against the Palestinian people.
AXA
When Russia invaded Ukraine, insurance giant AXA (France) took targeted measures against it. Yet, as Israel, a 75-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid, wages a genocidal war on Gaza, AXA continues to invest in Israeli banks financing war crimes and the theft of Palestinian land and natural resources.
Hewlett Packard Inc (HP Inc)
HP Inc (US) provides services to the offices of genocide leaders, Israeli PM Netanyahu and Financial Minister Smotrich.
SodaStream
SodaStream is actively complicit in Israel's policy of displacing the indigenous Bedouin-Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Naqab (Negev) and has a long history of racial discrimination against Palestinian workers.
Ahava
Ahava cosmetics has its production site, visitor center, and main store in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory.
RE/MAX
RE/MAX (US) markets and sells property in illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land, thus enabling Israel’s colonization of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli produce in your supermarkets
Fruits, vegetables, and wines misleadingly labeled as “Product of Israel” often include products of illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land. Israeli companies do not distinguish between the two, and neither should consumers. Boycott produce from Israel in your supermarket and demand their removal from shelves.
2. Divestment targets:
Elbit Systems
Elbit Systems is apartheid Israel’s largest arms company. It “field-tests” its weapons on Palestinians, including in Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza. On top of building killer drones, Elbit makes surveillance technology for Israel's apartheid wall, checkpoints and Gaza fence, enabling apartheid. The US and EU use Elbit's technology to militarize their borders, violating refugee and indigenous peoples' rights.
HD Hyundai/Volvo/CAT/JCB
Machinery from HD Hyundai (South Korea), Volvo (Sweden/China), CAT (US), and JCB (UK) has been used by Israel in the ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of Palestinians through the destruction of their homes, farms, and businesses, as well as the construction of illegal settlements on land stolen from them, a war crime under international law.
Barclays
Barclays Bank (UK) holds more than £1 billion in shares of, and provides more than £3bn in loans and underwriting to nine companies whose weapons, components and military technology have been used in Israel’s armed violence against Palestinians.
CAF
Basque transport firm, CAF, builds and services the Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR), a tram line that serves Israel's illegal settlements in Jerusalem. CAF benefits from Israel’s war crimes on stolen Palestinian land.
Chevron
US fossil fuel multinational Chevron is the main international corporation extracting gas claimed by apartheid Israel in the East Mediterranean. Chevron generates billions in revenues, strengthening Israel’s war chest and apartheid system, and exacerbating the climate crisis.
HikVision
Amnesty International has documented high-resolution CCTV cameras made by the Chinese company Hikvision installed in residential areas and mounted to Israeli military infrastructure for surveillance of Palestinians. Some of these models, according to Hikvision’s own marketing, can plug into external facial recognition software.
TKH Security
Amnesty International has identified cameras made by the Dutch company TKH Security used by Israel for surveillance of Palestinians. TKH provides Israeli police with surveillance technology that is used to entrench apartheid.
3. Pressure (non-boycott) targets:
Google and Amazon (US)
As the Israeli military bombed homes, clinics, and schools in Gaza and threatened to push Palestinian families from their homes in occupied Jerusalem May 2021, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud executives signed a $1.22 billion contract to provide cloud technology to the Israeli government and military. By supporting Israeli apartheid with vital technologies, Amazon and Google are directly implicated in its entire system of oppression, including its unfolding genocide in Gaza. Join the #NoTechForApartheid campaign. While the campaigns targeting these corporations have not called for boycotts, other forms of pressure have been adopted to force them to end their complicity.
Airbnb/Booking/Expedia
Airbnb (US), Booking.com (Netherlands) and Expedia (US) all offer rentals in illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land. While the campaigns targeting these corporations have not called for boycotts, yet, other forms of pressure have been adopted to force them to end their complicity.
Disney
The Disney-owned Marvel Studios (US) is promoting in the next Captain America film a "superhero" that personifies apartheid Israel. Both companies are therefore complicit in "anti-Palestinian racism, Israeli propaganda, and the glorification of settler-colonial violence against Indigenous people," as Palestinian cultural organizations have stated.
4. Grassroots organic boycott targets:
McDonald’s (US), Burger King (US), Papa John’s (US), Pizza Hut (US), WIX (Israel), etc. are now being targeted in some countries by grassroots organic boycott campaigns, not initiated by the BDS movement, because these companies, or their branches or franchises in Israel, have openly supported apartheid Israel and/or provided generous in-kind donations to the Israeli military amid the current Israeli offensive against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip–described by leading international scholars of international law as an “unfolding genocide.” If these grassroots campaigns are not already organically active in your area, we suggest focusing your energies on our strategic campaigns above.
Remember, all Israeli banks and virtually all Israeli companies are complicit to some degree in Israel’s system of occupation and apartheid, and hundreds of international corporations and banks are also deeply complicit. We focus our boycotts on a small number of companies and products for maximum impact.
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· STERP Software:
STERP Software is a cutting-edge ERP solution offering an array of features to streamline business operations. It excels in location tracking, task management, and mobile user visit reports. Additionally, it enables seamless tracking of finished goods progress and efficient document management. ISO audit reports and vendor ratings ensure compliance and supplier assessment. The dynamic dashboard provides real-time insights, while multi-currency support facilitates global transactions.
The export documents feature simplifies international trade, and auto-email & SMS integration enhances communication. Quotation lost analysis ratio aids in optimizing sales strategies. Depreciation calculation and auto JV streamline accounting. Moreover, it's Android & iOS mobile app enables easy on-the-go access, including component process tracking.
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Tally.ERP 9 is a highly renowned and extensively utilised enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in India, serving a diverse range of businesses, including engineering enterprises, irrespective of their scale or magnitude. Tally.ERP 9 offers comprehensive financial management, inventory control, and taxation modules that enable engineering organisations to adhere to Indian accounting rules and effectively handle financial data management.
· Oracle NetSuite:
Oracle NetSuite is a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that offers a cohesive platform, encompassing ERP, customer relationship management (CRM), and electronic commerce (eCommerce) capabilities. The software's adaptability and capacity to accommodate the needs of engineering businesses of varying sizes in India allow for the optimisation of operations and the acquisition of significant knowledge regarding their business procedures.
· Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP:
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a multifaceted enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that encompasses several functionalities like financial management, supply chain operations, and project accounting. By incorporating localization capabilities specifically designed for India, the software enables engineering organisations to effectively streamline their processes, adhere to regulatory standards, and improve overall client satisfaction.
· Ramco ERP:
The Ramco ERP system has been specifically developed to cater to the distinct needs and demands of the engineering sector within the Indian market. The inclusion of modules pertaining to project management, asset management, and production planning facilitates the attainment of operational excellence and the stimulation of growth within engineering enterprises.
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· EPPS ERP:
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· Marg ERP 9+:
Marg ERP 9+ is widely favoured among small and medium-sized engineering enterprises in India. The programme provides a wide range of capabilities, encompassing inventory management, order processing, and adherence to GST legislation, so facilitating operational efficiency and ensuring compliance with local legal requirements for enterprises.
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Yes it’s good that these companies will make it easier for their workers to access abortion care. But let’s be honest considering who owns some of these companies and the history of others are they doing it to support women or to avoid paying more benefits?
Several companies are pledging to help employees who, depending on where they live, may have to travel elsewhere to receive abortion care.
Here are some of the prominent companies offering expanded assistance to staff in states curtailing abortion care.
Microsoft
Microsoft extended its financial support for "critical healthcare," including abortions and gender-affirming care, to include coverage for travel expenses for such services, after the draft opinion overturning Roe was first leaked.
Apple
The company's existing benefits package allows employees to travel out of state for medical care if it is unavailable in their home state, according to an Apple spokesperson.
Meta
The tech giant intends to offer travel expense reimbursement "to the extent permitted by law" for employees seeking out-of-state health care and reproductive services, according to a spokesperson. "We are in the process of assessing how best to do so given the legal complexities involved," the Meta spokesperson said in a statement.
Amazon
In May, the nation's second-largest private employer said it would cover up to $4,000 per year in travel expenses for staff members seeking non-life-threatening medical care, including abortions if care isn't available within 100 miles of where they live.
Tesla
The electric vehicle maker said in its 2021 impact report that it will help provide travel and lodging "for those who may need to seek health care services that are unavailable in their home state" as part of its expanded Safety Net program and health insurance offering. Tesla's headquarters moved to Texas in 2021, a state that has banned abortions after six weeks.
Citigroup
Citigroup in March became one of the largest U.S. companies to commit to covering employees' travel costs if they need to leave their state to seek an abortion.
"In response to changes in reproductive healthcare laws in certain states in the US, beginning in 2022 we provide travel benefits to facilitate access to adequate resources," Citi said in a letter to shareholders as part of its annual proxy statement.
Dick's Sporting Goods
Lauren Hobart, president and CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods, posted on LinkedIn on Friday that the company was "prepared to ensure that all of our teammates have consistent and safe access to the benefits we provide, regardless of the state in which they live."
"In response to today’s ruling, we are announcing that if a state one of our teammates lives in restricts access to abortion, DICK’S Sporting Goods will provide up to $4,000 in travel expense reimbursement to travel to the nearest location where that care is legally available. This benefit will be provided to any teammate, spouse or dependent enrolled in our medical plan, along with one support person," Hobart's post says.
Disney
Sources including CNBC and Reuters have obtained a copy of an internal memo sent to Disney employees, which outlines the company's stance on providing reproductive care in light of the Supreme Court decision.
The memo is signed by Paul Richardson, Disney's chief human resources officer, and Pascale Thomas, vice president of enterprise benefits and well-being.
“Our company remains committed to removing barriers and providing comprehensive access to quality and affordable care for all of our employees, cast members and their families, including family planning and reproductive care, no matter where they live,” Richardson and Thomas wrote in the memo.
“In fact, we have processes in place so that an employee who may be unable to access care in one location has affordable coverage for receiving similar levels of care in another location," the memo continues. This travel benefit covers medical situations related to cancer treatments, transplants, rare disease treatment and family planning (including pregnancy-related decisions).”
Clarified: The overturn of Roe v. Wade
Netflix
The streaming company offers travel reimbursement coverage for U.S. full-time employees and their dependents who need to travel for healthcare treatments including abortions and gender-affirming care, a Netflix spokesperson told CNN. The company provides a lifetime allowance of $10,000 per employee (or their dependents) per service.
Comcast-NBC Universal
Comcast has an existing healthcare travel benefit for all employees that covers up to $4,000 per trip, up to three trips per year, with a maximum coverage cap of $10,000 per year. The amount paid out depends on the type of health care procedure, but abortion care is covered, according to the company.
Warner Bros Discovery
Warner Brothers Discovery, which owns CNN, on Friday expanded healthcare benefits options to include expenses for employees and their covered family members who need to travel to access abortions and other reproductive care, according to a company spokesperson.
JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan on Friday said that its health care benefits have long covered abortion care. And starting in July, abortion will be included in the company's health care travel benefit that covers services that can only be obtained far from home, according to spokesperson Joseph Evangelisti.
Nike
The sportswear company said in a statement that it covers travel and lodging expenses in situations where healthcare services are not available close to home, according to a statement Nike released Friday.
"No matter where our teammates are on their family planning journey — from contraception and abortion coverage, to pregnancy and family-building support through fertility, surrogacy and adoption benefits — we are here to support their decisions," the statement reads.
Kroger
The grocer's healthcare package includes travel benefits of up to $4,000 to facilitate access for reproductive healthcare services, including abortion and fertility treatments, according to a Kroger spokesperson.
Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines said in a statement that it has always provided travel reimbursements for "certain medical procedures and treatments if they are not available where you live."
"Today's Supreme Court decision does not change that," it said.
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs on Friday extended its healthcare travel reimbursement policies to include all medical procedures, treatments and evaluations, including abortion services, in areas where a provider is not available near to where its employees live, a benefit that will be effective July 1, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN.
Zillow
Zillow said in a statement Friday that its health benefits cover a wide range of reproductive health services, including abortions. The company said that as of June 1, its health plan has been updated to include a reimbursement of up to $7,500 "each time significant travel is necessary to access health care, including reproductive services."
Bumble
The dating app company, which is based in Austin, Texas, in September created a fund "supporting the reproductive rights of women and people across the gender spectrum who seek abortions in Texas."
"Bumble is women-founded and women-led, and from day one we've stood up for the most vulnerable," the company initially posted on Twitter.
Relief funds will go to organizations that support women's reproductive rights, including Fund Texas Choice, according to Bumble.
Levi Strauss
The clothing company called protecting access to reproductive care a critical business issue.
"Efforts to further restrict or criminalize that access would have far-reaching consequences for the American workforce," the company told CNN Business in a statement. "Given what is at stake, business leaders need to make their voices heard and act to protect the health and well-being of our employees. That means protecting reproductive rights."
Under Levi's benefits plan, employees can be reimbursed for travel expenses for services not available in their home state, including abortion. Part-time staff and others who aren't included in the company's benefits plan are also eligible for reimbursement, it said.
Lyft & Uber
The ride-sharing rivals each announced in September that they would create legal defense funds to protect any drivers who might be sued under the Texas law for driving a person who receives an abortion.
The law's wording leaves open the possibility that a driver could be sued, possibly even if they didn't know an abortion was happening, according to Elizabeth Sepper, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Lyft also said it would donate $1 million to Planned Parenthood "to ensure that transportation is never a barrier to healthcare access."
Match Group
The Dallas-based company that owns Match.com and several dating apps including Tinder, OkCupid and Hinge, also announced in September a fund to ensure its employees and their dependents would be able to seek reproductive care outside of Texas.
"The company generally does not take political stands unless it is relevant to our business," said CEO Shar Dubey in a memo at the time. "But in this instance, I personally, as a woman in Texas, could not keep silent."
Salesforce
Salesforce announced in September that it would assist its employees and their families if they want to leave Texas after the state passed the nation's most restrictive abortion law.
The cloud computing company told its 56,000 employees that they "stand with all of our women at Salesforce and everywhere."
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tweeted at the time: "Ohana if you want to move we'll help you exit TX. Your choice." ("Ohana" is the Hawaiian word for "family.")
Yelp
A representative for the San Francisco-based company said its employee health insurance already covers abortion care, but starting in May, Yelp pledged to cover travel expenses for any U.S. employees and their dependents who need to travel out of state to access abortion care.
The benefit extends to staff and dependents affected by any current or future restrictions on reproductive rights.
As a remote-first company with a distributed workforce, "it's a priority for us to offer our employees consistent health care coverage, regardless of where they live," a representative said.
Starbucks
Starbucks' health care plan is offering reimbursement for travel for abortion or gender-affirming procedures when those are not available within 100 miles of an employee's home. Dependents who use Starbucks' medical plan are also eligible for these benefits.
"Regardless of what the Supreme Court ends up deciding, we will always ensure our partners have access to quality healthcare," wrote Sara Kelly, acting EVP of Partner Resources at the company, in a May 16 letter.
Kelly added that the company's benefits team is working on details of the new benefit, including timing.
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