Ditching DEI is bad for employees and employers: HRC report

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/ditching-dei-bad-business

Actions speak louder than words. #Trump claims to support equal rights. This is the #CorporateEqualityIndex brought to you by the #HumanRightsCampaign. Each business was given a score based on how equality-forward and LGBT+ friendly they are.
Everything owned by Trump scored 0.
More companies are falling prey to the fascist movement. Removing themselves from the HRC Corporate Equality Index, since GQP push-back against DEI concepts, erasing racial progress. Previously reported Tractor Supply & John Deere, list now includes Harley Davidson, Jack Daniels, #Loewe's (ouch!), & #Ford.
#HumanRightsCampaign #CorporateEqualityIndex #gay #rights are #human rights #HRC #corporate #equality #index #under #attack #LGBTQ #DEI #progress #race #progressive https://www.axios.com/2024/08/28/human-rights-campaign-lgbtq-ford-lowes-robby-starbuck
Anti-DEI movement gaining steam as Ford exits LGBTQ+ index

Several major companies are no longer publicly committing to a longstanding corporate pledge to provide a beneficial work environment to LGBTQ+ employees.

Axios

@HRC , industry standard for their #CorporateEqualityIndex released their first ever framework for best practices. #Social #sustainability has never been easier to implement with high-quality resources readily available! Are you measuring your impact?

https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lgbtq-corporate-citizen-a-framework-for-emerging-best-practices-in-allyship

The LGBTQ+ Corporate Citizen – A Framework for Emerging Best Practices in Allyship

The Human Rights Campaign’s first-ever Corporate Citizenship Report examines how corporations can work across all of their business operations to advance the inclusion, safety and flourishing of LGBTQ+ people within and outside their organizations.

Human Rights Campaign

Record-shattering 1,380 #businesses take part in #annual #corporateequalityindex

Participants this year were also much more likely to have policies in place that support #transgender #workers in what #HRC described as “the most considerable #progress measured over the 20-year #history of the #CEI.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4335712-record-shattering-1380-businesses-take-part-in-annual-corporate-equality-index/

Record-shattering 1,380 businesses take part in annual corporate equality index

More than 1,380 businesses participated in an annual corporate equality ranking conducted by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the group said Thursday, a record-shattering total that includes more than 400 Fortune 500 businesses. More than 500 businesses that participated in this year’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) received a perfect score, HRC said, despite a more…

The Hill
Record-breaking number of businesses showing real LGBTQ+ allyship, figures show

New data shows a record-breaking number of businesses are displaying true LGBTQ+ allyship to their employees.

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