Power Home Remodeling, the Chester, Delaware County-based siding firm which calls itself the largest home-remodeling company in the country, with over 2,700 employees, including over 700 in the Philadelphia area, said it began a policy of paying for employee travel for abortion last month, “in response to the changing laws around reproductive rights,” spokeswoman Andrea Recine told The Inquirer in an email. About 34% of Power’s Philadelphia-area employees are women, she added.
Power chief executive Hollie Delaney, who joined the company in 2020, told employees during a company-wide virtual meeting in May that it will pay up to $5,000 per insured employee, and the same for a dependent, over the employee’s lifetime, “for travel and lodging not associated with gaining medical care not available within 100 miles of an employee’s residence.”
It was “an easy decision to make,” Delaney told workers. “It’s about the responsibility we have as business leaders to create a a safe environment for their employees, support their needs, and safeguard their rights.” She said she was making the statement “as a business leader” who is also “a woman, a mother and a human being.”
The company said the policy is explicitly in response to state laws limiting abortion, “which impacts hundreds of Power employees” and their dependents. It will also cover organ transplants, cancer treatment, rehabilitation and other injury, and apply to airfare, mileage or fuel costs, hotel and toll road fees and...
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