Record 842 Employers Get Perfect Score in HRC Corporate Equality Index [View all]
The number of companies earning a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index continues to increase, with a record 842 employers doing so in the index’s 2022 edition, released Thursday. The index, in its 20th year, rates companies on their policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ equality in the workplace. Criteria include nondiscrimination policies, equitable benefits, an inclusive culture, and corporate social responsibility.
The foundation, which is the educational arm of the Human Rights Campaign, also announced updated criteria for the 2023 index. The new criteria will focus on expanding gender-affirming health care and workplace policies, ensuring equality in LGBTQ+ family formation benefit offerings, centering LGBTQ+ intersectionality through training and data collection best practices, and more. The index’s criteria have been updated periodically throughout its history.
The number of employers receiving a perfect 100 percent score is up from 767 last year and only 13 in 2002, the first year of the index. The 842 businesses earning the score this year employ 14.3 million workers. Nine companies have earned a perfect rating during the index’s history: Apple, JPMorgan Chase, American Airlines, Nike, Xerox, Eastman Kodak, and Replacements.
Three hundred seventy-nine Fortune 500 businesses have official CEI ratings based on submitted surveys, as compared to 366 last year — with actively participating Fortune 500 companies having an average score of 94 percent, up from 92 last year. Seventy-one percent of the Fortune 500 and 91 percent of all CEI-rated businesses offer transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, up from 0 in 2002.
https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/1/27/record-842-employers-get-perfect-score-hrc-corporate-equality-index
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The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the largest LGBTQ advocacy group and LGBTQ political lobbying organization in the United States ...
established in 1980.
Based in Washington DC, the organization focuses on protecting and expanding rights for LGBTQ individuals, most notably advocating for same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination and hate crimes legislation, and HIV/AIDS advocacy.
The organization has a number of legislative initiatives as well as supporting resources for LGBTQ individuals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign
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