Over 600 companies provide workplace protection of LGBTQ employees
As of 2018, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community are not explicitly protected by federal non-discrimination law. So in 2018, 609 major companies put into place initiatives that offer their LGBTQ employees workplace protection from discrimination.
The global number of employees with a corporate non-discrimination policy protecting against sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination is 14.5 million. One hundred and six top businesses are corporate supporters on the Equality Act — landmark federal legislation that would provide the same basic nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people as other protected groups under federal law.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, ‘The CEI, launched in 2002 to assess LGBTQ-inclusive policies and practices at Fortune 500 companies, also highlights how corporate leaders are increasingly stepping up to play a leading role in opposing anti-equality legislation — from statehouses to the U.S. Capitol. Through their actions, taken as LGBTQ workers and customers have been facing a record number of anti-LGBTQ bills in state legislatures across the country and attacks from our nation’s highest offices, business leaders are building on their longstanding commitment to expanding workplace equality for LGBTQ people.
Over the last several years, CEI-rated companies have dramatically expanded their support for transgender workers. When the CEI launched, just three percent of Fortune 500 companies had non-discrimination protections that included gender identity. Today, that number is 83 percent. And even as the Affordable Care Act has come under attack by lawmakers, trans-inclusive health care coverage has become a business norm. Seventy-nine percent of companies participating in this year’s CEI now offer transgender workers at least one health care plan that has transgender-inclusive coverage. HRC’s work through the CEI, often through one-on-one consultation with individual companies, has helped employers move toward full inclusion for their transgender employees.”
Key national findings revealed in the 2018 CEI:
0 609 companies earned a perfect 100 points,
up from 517 in the 2017 report
0 Gender identity is now part of non-discrimination policies at 83 percent of Fortune 500 companies,
up from just 3 percent in 2002
0 459 major employers have adopted supportive inclusion guidelines for transgender workers who
are transitioning
0 137 Fortune 500 companies were given unofficial
scores based on publicly available information
ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
Alliance Data Systems Corp.
Daniel J. Edelman Inc.
DigitasLBi
Fleishman-Hillard Inc.
Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.
Leo Burnett Company Inc.
Mediavest | Spark
MSLGROUP Americas
Ogilvy Group Inc., The
Omnicom Group
Optimedia International US Inc.
Publicis Healthcare Communications
Publicis Media
Re:Sources USA Inc.
Saatchi & Saatchi North America Inc.
Starcom
Zenith Media Services Inc.
AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE
BAE Systems Inc.
Boeing Co.
Harris Corp.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Northrop Grumman Corp.
Raytheon Co.
Rockwell Collins Inc.
Rolls-Royce North America (USA) Holdings Co.
AIRLINES
Alaska Airlines
American Airlines
Delta Air Lines Inc.
JetBlue Airways Corp.
Southwest Airlines Co.
United Airlines
Virgin America
SkyWest Airlines Inc.
Hawaiian Airlines Inc.
APPAREL, FASHION, TEXTILES, DEPT. STORES
Adidas North America Inc.
American Apparel LLC
Levi Strauss & Co.
Macy’s Inc.
Nike Inc.
PVH Corp.
Under Armour Inc.
VF Corp.
AUTOMOTIVE
FCA US LLC
Ford Motor Co.
General Motors Co.
Hyundai Motor America
Lear Corp.
Nissan North America Inc.
Subaru of America Inc.
Tesla Inc.
Toyota Motor North America Inc.
Volkswagen Group of America Inc.
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
AllianceBernstein LP
Ally Financial Inc.
American Express Co.
Ameriprise Financial Inc.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp., The Barclays
BB&T Corp.
BlackRock
Bloomberg LP
BMO Bankcorp Inc.
BNP Paribas
Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.
Capital Group Companies Inc., The
Capital One Financial Corp.
Carlyle Group LP, The
Charles Schwab & Co. Inc.
Citigroup Inc.
Comerica Inc.
Compass Bancshares Inc. (BBVA Compass)
Credit Suisse USA Inc.
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.,
The Deutsche Bank
Discover Financial Services
Eastern Bank Corp.
Edward Jones
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
(Freddie Mac)
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
Federal Reserve Bank
of Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank
of Boston
Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago
Federal Reserve Bank
of Cleveland
Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond
Federal Reserve Bank
of San Francisco
Federal Reserve Bank
of St Louis
Fidelity National Information Services Inc.
Fifth Third Bancorp
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.
First American Financial Corp.
First Data Corp.
Franklin Resources Inc.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., The
HSBC USA
Huntington Bancshares Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
KeyBank
KKR & Co. LP
LPL Financial Holdings Inc.
MasterCard Inc.
Moody’s Corp.
Morgan Stanley
Morningstar Inc.
Navient
Northern Trust Corp.
OppenheimerFunds Inc.
Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC
PNC Financial Services Group Inc.,
The Prudential Financial Inc.
RBC Capital Markets LLC
RBC Wealth Management
Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated
Rockland Trust Co.
S&P Global Inc.
Societe Generale Financial Corp.
State Street Corp.
SunTrust Banks Inc.
Synchrony Financial
T. Rowe Price Associates Inc.
TD Ameritrade
TD Bank, N.A.
TD Securities (USA) LLC
TIAA
TPG Global LLC
U.S. Bancorp
UBS AG
Union Bank
United Services Automobile Association
Vanguard Group Inc.
Visa
Wells Fargo & Co.
CHEMICALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
BASF Corp.
Dow Chemical Co., The
Ecolab Inc.
Genentech Inc.
Monsanto Co.
Praxair Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
University of Phoenix
COMPUTER AND DATA SERVICES
ADP
Citrix Systems Inc.
Dell Inc.
Dropbox Inc.
EMC Corp.
FactSet Research Systems Inc.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
HP Inc.
Lenovo (United States)
Inc.
Rackspace
Tech Data Corp.
COMPUTER HARDWARE AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT
Apple Inc.
CDW Corp.
Lexmark International
Inc.
Xero
COMPUTER SOFTWARE
Adobe Systems Inc.
Autodesk Inc.
CA Technologies Inc.
Cloudera Inc.
Electronic Arts Inc.
Intuit Inc.
Lyft Inc.
Medallia Inc. Microsoft Corp. NCR Corp.
Oracle Corp.
Salesforce
SAP America Inc.
Symantec Corp.
Uber Technologies Inc.
VMware Inc.
Workday Inc.
CONSULTING AND BUSINESS SERVICES
A.T. Kearney Inc.
Accenture
Advisory Board Co., The
AlixPartners LLP
Aon Corp.
Bain & Co. Inc./ Bridgespan Group
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Boston Consulting Group
Capital Markets Company N.V,
The Convergys Corp.
Deloitte LLP
Dun & Bradstreet Corp., The
Ernst & Young LLP
Gartner Inc.
Grant Thornton LLP
Huron Consulting Group Inc.
IBM Corp.
Iron Mountain Inc.
Kelly Services Inc.
KPMG LLP
ManpowerGroup
Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.
McKinsey & Co. Inc.
Navigant Consulting Inc.
Nielsen
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Robert Half
Sapient Consulting Corp.
SapientRazorfish
Slalom
Thomson Reuters
Willis Towers Watson
EDUCATION AND CHILD CARE
Bright Horizons Family Solutions LLC
Pearson Inc.
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
Alliant Energy Corp.
Ameren Corp.
American Electric Power Co. Inc.
Consumers Energy
Duke Energy Corp.
Entergy Corp.
Exelon Corp.
National Grid USA
NiSource Inc.
PG&E Corp.
Portland General Electric Co.
PPL Corp.
Public Service Enterprise Group
Sempra Energy
Southern California Edison Co.
Southern Co.
Xcel Energy Inc.
ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION
AECOM
Turner Construction Co.
ENTERTAINMENT AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA
AMC Entertainment Inc.
CBS Corp.
Comcast NBCUniversal
Live Nation Inc.
Netflix Inc.
Pandora Media Inc.
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc.
Sony Corporation of America
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
TEGNA Inc.
Time Warner Inc.
Univision Communications Inc.
Viacom Inc.
Walt Disney Co., The
FOOD, BEVERAGES
AND GROCERIES
Ahold USA Inc.
Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.
Aramark Corp.
Barilla America Inc.
Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc.
Brown-Forman Corp.
Campbell Soup Co
Cargill Inc.
Coca-Cola Co., The
ConAgra Brands Inc.
Constellation Brands Inc.
Darden Restaurants Inc.
Delhaize America Inc.
Diageo North America
E&J Gallo Winery
General Mills Inc.
Hain Celestial Group Inc.,
The Hershey Co., The
Hormel Foods Corp.
Kellogg Co.
Land O’Lakes Inc.
McDonald’s Corp.
MillerCoors LLC
Mondelez International Inc.
PepsiCo Inc.
Pernod Ricard USA LLC
Sodexo Inc.
Tyson Foods Inc.
Wawa Inc.
HEALTHCARE
Aetna Inc.
AmerisourceBergen Corp.
AthenaHealth Inc.
Baxter International Inc.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
Blue Shield of California
Boston Scientific Corp.
Cardinal Health Inc.
Centene Corp.
Cerner Corp.
CIGNA Corp.
CVS Health Corp.
Express Scripts Holding Company
Group Health Cooperative
Henry Schein Inc.
Humana Inc.
Kaiser Permanente
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
McKesson Corp.
Quest Diagnostics Inc.
Washington Permanente Medical Group
HEALTHCARE MEDICAL FACILITIES
Kindred Healthcare Inc.
HIGH-TECH/PHOTO/SCIENCE EQUIP.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Becton, Dickinson and Co.
Eastman Kodak Co.
HERE North America LLC
Intel Corp.
Medtronic PLC
NVIDIA Corp.
Texas Instruments Inc.
HOME FURNISHING
IKEA Holding US Inc.
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
HOTELS, RESORTS AND CASINOS
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
Caesars Entertainment Corp.
Choice Hotels International Inc.
Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, The
Hilton Inc.
Hyatt Hotels Corp.
InterContinental Hotels Group Americas
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group LLC
Marriott International Inc.
MGM Resorts International
Wyndham Worldwide Corp.
Wynn Resorts Ltd.
INSURANCE
AIG
Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America
Allstate Insurance Co.
American Family Insurance Group
Anthem Inc.
AXA
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Inc.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Cambia Health Solutions Inc.
CareFirst Inc.
Chubb Corp.
CNA Insurance
CSAA Insurance Group
CUNA Mutual Group
Erie Insurance Group
Excellus Health Plan Inc.
Genworth Financial Inc.
Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America, The
Hanover Insurance Group Inc.
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., The
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
Health Care Service Corp.
Highmark Inc.
John Hancock Financial Services Inc.
Liberty Mutual Group
Lincoln National Corp.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
MetLife Inc.
Nationwide
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Principal Financial Group
Standard Insurance Co.
State Farm Group
Sun Life Financial Inc. (US)
Transamerica Corp., The
Travelers Companies Inc., The
Tufts Health Plan
Unum Group
Voya Financial
Wellmark Inc.
INTERNET SERVICES AND RETAILING
Airbnb Inc.
Akamai Technologies Inc.
Amazon.com Inc.
eBay Inc.
Expedia Inc.
Facebook Inc.
Google Inc.
Groupon Inc.
IAC/InterActiveCorp.
Indeed Inc.
LinkedIn
PayPal Holdings Inc.
Twitter Inc.
WeddingWire Inc.
Yelp Inc.
LAW FIRMS
Akerman LLP
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP
Arent Fox LLP
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
Ballard Spahr LLP
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
Blank Rome LLP
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Brown Rudnick LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Buckley Sandler LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Carlton Fields Jorden Burt
Chapman and Cutler LLP
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Clifford Chance US LLP
Cooley LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Day Pitney LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
Dentons US LLP
Dickinson Wright PLLC
DLA Piper
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Duane Morris LLP
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
Faegre Baker Daniels
Fenwick & West LLP
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley Hoag LLP
Fredrikson & Byron
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Frost Brown Todd LLC
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
Goulston & Storrs
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Husch Blackwell LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
K&L Gates LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kaye Scholer LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Kutak Rock LLP
Lane Powell PC
Latham & Watkins LLP
Lindquist & Vennum LLP
Littler Mendelson PC
Locke Lord LLP
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC Moore & Van Allen PLLC
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Nixon Peabody LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Paul Hastings LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Quarles & Brady LLP
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Robins Kaplan LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
Schiff Hardin LLP
Sedgwick LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Snell & Wilmer
Squire Patton Boggs
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Stinson Leonard Street LLP
Stoel Rives LLP
Thompson Coburn LLP
Thompson Hine LLP
Troutman Sanders LLP
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
White & Case LLP
Wiley Rein LLP
Williams Mullen PC
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
MAIL AND FREIGHT DELIVERY
FedEx Corp.
United Parcel Service Inc.
MANUFACTURING
3M Co.
Arconic
Ball Corp.
Corning Inc.
Cummins Inc.
Danaher Corp.
Eastman Chemical Co.
Eaton Corp.
Emerson Electric Co.
Fortive Corp.
General Electric Co.
Herman Miller Inc.
Ingersoll-Rand Company
Nestlé Purina PetCare Co.
Owens Corning
Rockwell Automation Inc.
Siemens
Steelcase Inc.
Stryker Corp.
TE Connectivity Inc.
United Technologies Corp.
MINING AND METALS
Alcoa Corp.
Newmont Mining Corporation
MISCELLANEOUS
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont)
W.W. Grainger Inc.
OIL AND GAS
Air Products & Chemicals Inc.
BP America Inc.
Chevron Corp. ConocoPhillips
Shell Oil Co.
PHARMACEUTICALS
AbbVie Inc.
Amgen Inc.
Astellas Pharma US Inc.
Bayer U.S. LLC
Biogen
Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corp.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Eli Lilly & Co.
Gilead Sciences Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline LLC
Johnson & Johnson
Mallinckrodt LLC
Merck & Co. Inc.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Pfizer Inc.
Sanofi
Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.
Teva Pharmaceutical USA Inc.
PUBLISHING AND PRINTING
Gannett Co. Inc.
UBM plc
REAL ESTATE, COMMERCIAL
CBRE Inc.
JLL
Lendlease Americas Inc.
RETAIL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc.
Ascena Retail Group Inc.
Avon Products Inc.
B J’s Wholesale Club
Barnes & Noble Inc.
Best Buy Co. Inc.
Caleres
CarMax Inc.
Clorox Co., The
Coach Inc.
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
Dollar General Corp.
Estée Lauder Companies Inc., The
GameStop Corp.
Gap Inc.
Hallmark Cards Inc.
Hasbro Inc.
Home Depot Inc., The
J.C. Penney Co. Inc.
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
Kohl’s Corp.
L Brands Inc.
L’Oréal USA Inc.
Mattel Inc.
Nordstrom Inc.
Office Depot Inc.
Outerwall Inc.
PetSmart Inc.
Procter & Gamble Co.
Replacements Ltd.
S.C. Johnson & Son Inc.
Sears Holdings Corp.
Sony Electronics Inc. Staples Inc.
Starbucks Corp.
Target Corp.
Tiffany & Co.
TJX Companies Inc., The
Toys ‘R’ Us Inc.
Unilever
Walgreen Co.
Whirlpool Corp.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AT&T Inc.
Charter Communications
Cisco Systems Inc.
Level 3 Communications Inc.
Nokia Inc.
QUALCOMM Inc.
Sprint Corp.
T-Mobile USA Inc.
Verizon Communications Inc.
West Corp.
TOBACCO
Altria Group Inc.
TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL
American Express Global Business Travel
Carnival Corp.
Norfolk Southern Corp.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Republic Services Inc.
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