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The crowd-sourced review platform for restaurants and other
businesses will provide travel benefits to its U.S. employees
who need to travel out of states like Texas and Oklahoma that
have restricted access to abortion services.
“As a remote-first company with a distributed workforce, this
new benefit allows our U.S. employees and their dependents to
have equitable access to reproductive care, regardless of where
they live,” Miriam Warren, Yelp's chief diversity officer, said
in a statement.
Other companies have pledged to offer similar support to their
Texas-based employees.
Citigroup Inc in March started covering travel expenses for
employees who go out of state for abortions, becoming the first
major U.S. bank to make that commitment.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt on Tuesday signed a bill that
makes it illegal to perform an abortion in the state except in
medical emergencies, penalizing those who do with up to $100,000
in fines and 10 years in prison.
The Supreme Court is due to rule by the end of June on a case
involving a Republican-backed Mississippi law that gives its
conservative majority a chance to undermine or even repeal the
landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion
nationwide.
(Reporting by Doyinsola Oladipo; Editing by Anna Driver and
Andrea Ricci)
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