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Former employee petitions DART
to add domestic partner benefits
A former Dallas Area Rapid Transit employee is
petitioning the agency to add domestic partner
benefits after health issues have forced him to stop
working.
Andrew Moss worked as a DART police officer
for five years until 2008. He then worked for the
city of Fort Worth until his health prevented him
from working. He's now on COBRA but that will
expire in December, he said.
Moss legally married his husband in California in
2008, but Texas doesn't recognize the marriage.
He said his husband still works as a police officer
for DART and could add Moss to his health insur-
ance plan as early as January if DART offered DP
benefits.
"My husband goes to work and risks his life for
DART and should get the same benefits that his
counterparts of a different sexual orientation get,"
Moss said.
Moss has started a Change.org petition called
"Urge Dallas Area Rapid Transit DART to Offer Do-
mestic Partner Benefits" to persuade DART Presi-
dent Gary Thomas and Deputy Executive Director
Jesse Oliver to add the benefits.
As of Thursday afternoon, July 19, 36 people
had signed it.
"In my discussion with Dallas Area Rapid Transit,
I was advised by their Human Resources Man-
agers that DART 'Prefers not to get into the
choices of their employees,'" Moss mentions in the
petition letter. "I wasn't aware my husband and I
and countless others woke up one day and de-
cided to be LGBT. DART appears to be less than
willing to even attempt to assist their LGBT popula-
tion in obtaining benefits or other effective work-
place protections."
DART added sexual orientation to its nondis-
crimination policy in 1995 and added trans protec-
tions in 2010 after pressure from the LGBT
community surrounding an allegation of discrimina-
tion against a trans bus driver. Moss said adding
DP benefits is the next step after passing nondis-
crimination, adding that making it about cost is not
an acceptable reason.
"If we don't give black people benefits because
it's too expensive, that's just wrong," he said.
DART spokesman Morgan Lyons said the com-
pany's administration is aware of the petition after
Dallas Voice brought it to his attention and there
are no plans to offer the benefits to its roughly
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Andrew Moss
3,500 employees.
"There are no plans currently to talk about a de-
cision to expand benefits to domestic partners," he
said, declining to comment on why.
DART's current Board of Directors is comprised
of 15 individuals, seven representing Dallas, and
the others representing one or more of the follow-
ing: Garland, Irving, Piano, Cockrell Hill, Richard-
son, University Park, Addison, Highland Park,
Carrollton, Farmers Branch, Rowlett and Glenn
Heights.
Resource Center Dallas' Rafael McDonnell said
he has had informal discussions with DART offi-
cials recently and was told that DART's general
counsel in the past was against adding the bene-
fits. Lyons said DART's previous general counsel
recently left and they are in the process of hiring
another one.
McDonnell added that cost projections in El
Paso, which added DP benefits in 2009, and Park-
land's figures from this year were well below the
expected cost.
"It's not an issue of cost. It's an issue of fair-
ness," he said.
For Moss, the issue of fairness will come down
to his health and whether he will be able to afford
any medical procedures or treatments after his
COBRA runs out.
"It's the right thing to do," he said. "Equal pay,
equal benefits for equal work."
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