- Amazon will cover up to $4,000 per year in medical care travel costs for US employees.
- The new coverage is for non-life threatening treatments, including abortion, Reuters first reported.
- Amazon follows similar moves by large employers like Citigroup, Apple, Levi's and Yelp.
Amazon will cover up to $4,000 per year in travel costs for US employees seeking non-life threatening medical treatments, including elective abortion.
The company notified some workers in an internal message that was first reported by Reuters, and a spokesperson confirmed Reuters' reporting to Insider. Other workers told Insider they had not received the message.
Several large employers have announced similar policies in the wake of increasingly restrictive laws passed by Republican-controlled states like Texas and Oklahoma.
"In response to changes in reproductive health-care laws in certain states in the U.S., beginning in 2022 we provide travel benefits to facilitate access to adequate resources," Citigroup told investors in a filing after Texas Governor Greg Abbot signed a law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Other companies include Apple, Bumble, Levi's, and HP.
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