In March, wholesale IT distributor Tech Data joined 378 other companies and signed on to an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to harmonize discrepant state laws and rule in favor of same sex marriage.
“More than seventy percent of Americans live in a state that celebrates and recognizes same-sex marriages. But many states continue to prohibit same-sex couples from marrying,” the brief’s authors wrote. “This fractured legal landscape harms employers and employees alike.”
For Tech Data, one of the world’s largest wholesale distributor of IT products, the issue wasn’t just about economics. The company’s general counsel, David Vetter , noted that Tech ...
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