The monumental impact of the US Supreme Court’s June ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is still unfolding. US companies should prepare for a flood of inquiries into how the evolving patchwork of state reproductive health care laws will impact their employee benefit offerings.
To address these concerns, companies will need to weigh whether and how to communicate benefits to employees, shareholders, and other key stakeholders. Some companies have already anticipated stakeholder interest by publicly announcing plans to address employee access to reproductive health care.
The S&P 500 ranks large-cap US-based public companies based on overall risk, return, and performance in the large-cap (over $10 billion) equities market. I pulled the top 100 companies from the S&P 500 index and determined whether each company publicly announced employee reproductive benefits after the Supreme Court’s decision Dobbs.
However, the absence of a public announcement about reproductive benefits doesn’t necessarily mean that a company didn’t take internal action.
Of the top 100 companies on the S&P 500 Index, the communications, consumer discretionary, financial, and technology sectors had the most public announcements. Together, these sectors make up a significant portion of the S&P 500 index, accounting for four of the top five sectors overall. The remaining sector in the top five is the health-care sector,...
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