HRC's Corporate Equality Index

[bjarvis]

Every year, the Human Rights Campaign surveys major corporations in the United States to see how well (or how badly) these companies treat their lesbian, gay, bi & transgendered employees.

Click for the report.

This year, 138 companies earned a perfect score. I'm happy to report my employer was one of them.

This is largely a good news report: gains were made in almost all categories and in almost all economic sectors. Muck-raker that I am, I was mostly interested in founding out who the slackers were in the ratings. This was rather difficult to do, as the appendices sort the ranked companies multiple ways but ironically not by their actual equality index score. The "dirt" is actually in a few paragraphs on page 8 where we find that Exxon-Mobil, Perot Systems and Meijer Inc. each scored a perfect 0.

Other bottom-feeders include Archers Daniels Midland (15), Baklor Electric (15), Bayer (15), CBRL Group (15), Entergy Corp (13), Genuine Parts Co (15), H.J. Heinz (15), KB Home (15), Lauren Manufacturing (5), Nestle Purina PetCare (15), Newell Rubbermaid (15), Nissan North America (15) and Praxair (25).

Comments

[beachin.livejournal.com]

My husband contracts for Exxon and they are have employee benefits issues across the board. They cut back all benefits on the same year they made the highest profits ever. No, the employees of Exxon are not happy campers.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mobil had some domestic partner bennies but they were removed after the Exxon takeover. Sorry your hubby gets to watch the pain up close. :-(

[beachin.livejournal.com]

Well, on our end, he is still a contractor, so it may be that when the shit really hits the fan, the power shifts to the contractors and we come out ahead. That's bad news for the employees, but Exxon will eventually pay for their bad judgement. Already the employees are looking elsewhere and clamoring for "the package."

They will see that replacing employees isn't as easy as it sounds. You just can't replace experience and training that they will lose because of short-sightedness. You would think companies would realize that.

I was working for a an administrative contractor on the day IBM fired all of their administrative staff on the same day, regardless of how close they were to retirement. There was one gal who was due to retire the next week. She was downsized just like that. I went in as a contractor that day and the place was utter chaos. I walked out that afternoon. Nobody want to work in a place that has such little regard for humanity.

[dhbearguy.livejournal.com]

My company is on there CMP Media, LLC

[book-of-daniel.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of proud that the Gap made the perfect score list... Denim Hell looks a little better today because of it...

[jss]

My current employer made a 100. Woot.

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

Well that's annoying - I don't buy from any of the bottom companies, so I can't boycott them. Oh wait, if I buy a cat, I can get the cat food from someone other than Purina! (Note to self...)