HRC’s 2014 Buyers Guide: is your favorite brand naughty or nice? (VIDEO)

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) 2014 Buyer’s Guide, which is culled from the 2014 Corporate Equality Index data, provides you the most accurate review of a business’s workplace policies toward LGBT employees. This year, more businesses than ever before are supporting workplace equality for LGBT people – but some are still falling behind. So, HRC…

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Corporate America champions LGBT equality in record numbers

WASHINGTON – In what was a historic year of progress for the equal rights of LGBT Americans, corporate America stood out as a true leader in the fight for basic fairness and dignity. Both inside the boardroom and in the halls of state legislatures and the U.S. Congress, American companies stood by their LGBT employees….

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Record numbers of businesses achieve 100 percent rating in HRCF’s new Corporate Equality Index

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF) today released it 2013 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) in which a record 252 businesses achieved the top rating of 100 percent, earning the coveted distinction of “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.”  As a point of comparison, 13 businesses earned a 100 percent in the inaugural CEI 11…

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SEIU resolution supports transgender workers

DENVER – The member-delegates of the 2.1 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have passed a ground-breaking resolution at their 2012 national conference in Denver last week. The resolution states that SEIU local groups and members will bargain for transgender-inclusive health care coverage as part of their contract negotiations with businesses and employers. “This is…

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