City of Coral Gables - File #: 12-2001

• File #: 12-2001
• Version: 1
• Name: Domestic Partner Benefits Ordinance
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 10/11/2012
• In control: City Commission
• On agenda: 10/30/2012
• Final action: 10/30/2012
• Enactment date: 10/30/2012
• Enactment #: 2012-14
• Title: An Ordinance amending Chapter 2 of the Code of the City of Coral Gables by adding Article XI, entitled "Domestic Partner Benefits"; recognizing domestic partnerships; defining domestic partners for purposes of City benefits; providing leave including, but not limited to, sick leave, family leave and bereavement leave, to City employees with domestic partners; providing City employees with insurance benefits for domestic partners and children of domestic partners; providing City employee domestic partners and children of such domestic partners with all other benefits available to City employee spouses and children of such spouses; providing for application of such benefits to other employees to the extent such employees' collective bargaining representative has included such benefits through the bargaining process; and, directing the City to amend the personnel rules and regulations to provide process and procedures for receipt of benefits in accordance with this Ordinance; providing fo...

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/30/2012	1	City Commission	adopted by Ordinance Number	Pass
10/16/2012	1	City Commission	approved as an Ordinance on First Reading	Pass

Title
An Ordinance amending Chapter 2 of the Code of the City of Coral Gables by adding Article XI, entitled "Domestic Partner Benefits"; recognizing domestic partnerships; defining domestic partners for purposes of City benefits; providing leave including, but not limited to, sick leave, family leave and bereavement leave, to City employees with domestic partners; providing City employees with insurance benefits for domestic partners and children of domestic partners; providing City employee domestic partners and children of such domestic partners with all other benefits available to City employee spouses and children of such spouses; providing for application of such benefits to other employees to the extent such employees' collective bargaining representative has included such benefits through the bargaining process; and, directing the City to amend the personnel rules and regulations to provide process and procedures for receipt of benefits in accordance with this Ordinance; providing for an effective date and a severability provision. (Passed on First Reading October 16, 2012)
Brief History
The City recognizes that City employees may establish and maintain important personal, emotional and economic relationships with persons to whom they are not married; that individuals forming such domestic partnerships live in a committed family relationship; and that City employees in domestic partner relationships should be granted employment benefits.

The City has been working towards offering employment benefits to City employees with domestic partners. The City negotiated domestic partner benefits with the Fraternal Order of Police, Coral Gables Lodge No. 7 (“FOP”), during the collective bargaining that recently concluded. The City’s proposal provided more benefits that what had been proposed by the FOP. These benefits were recently imposed by the City Commission on September 11, 2012, are currently effective as to the FOP bargaining unit.

The City would like ...