Walmart Case

As of 2013, 62% of Fortune 500 companies offered benefits to domestic partners. In
2013, Walmart, one of the nation’s largest employers, decided to allow domestic partners to be covered in their healthcare and a few other benefits starting in 2014. According to USA Today,
“Walmart spokesman Randy Hargrove said the company had been working to better define what a domestic partner is and that the Supreme Court 's decision helped prompt its move. Partners of
Walmart employees can be of the same or opposite sex and married or unmarried, as long as they 've been "living together in an ongoing exclusive" relationship for at least 12 months and intend to stay that way.”
It appears that Walmart is sending a new and encompassing cultural

An example of a sticky floor would be a minority employee who continues to try to advance and move into management, but is turned down time and time again due to whatever reason the hiring manager finds appropriate because they think a different class of a person would fit the positon better. An example of a glass escalator would be when a young white man starts in a company and very quickly finds himself in a management positon.
The LGBT community is not partial to these terms and concepts either. Members of the
LGBT community could fall victim to glass ceilings, sticky floors and glass walls keeping them contained in one area or another. However, depending on who is making the hiring and promoting decisions, they very well could be on a glass escalator just as anyone else. It doesn’t appear that these concepts of glass walls, glass ceilings, glass escalators and sticky floors necessarily pertain to Walmart or FedEx. They are just something to consider, but not the basis of the real topic at hand of all employees receiving the same kind of benefits from their job. The benefits are healthcare, medical, prescription coverage, vision, hearing, dental,