Each year the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) publishes the results and ratings of it's survey of companies in corporate America that have in place policies that supports GLBT equality in their workplace. Businesses are rated on a scale from 0 to 100 based on policies such as anti-discrimination protections, domestic partner benefits, diversity training, etc.To arrive at their rankings the HRC researches policies at more than 1800 U.S. companies. Any business with 500 or more U.S. employees can be rated.
Businesses with a score of 80-100 are rated as very friendly to the GLBT community and should be supported by consumers. These include (but not limited to): Best Buy, Sears, Supervalue, Target, Home Depot, Bank of America, HSBC, CIBC, Citi, J,P, Morgan Chase, Gap, Macy's, McDonald's, BP, Chevron, Shell, Anheuser Busch, Coke, Pepsi, General Mills, Unilever, Kraft, Microsoft, Apple, American Airlines, Walt Disney Company, Wyndham, Hilton Hotels, United Airlines, Time Warner, Viacom, just to name a few.
Businesses with a score of 46-79 have taken steps toward a fair-minded workplace but still have to make more progress with their policies such as Colgate-Pamolive and Royal Caribbean.
Businesses with a rating of 0-45 needs to do more to work to further equality...and consumers should make the choice to support a more fair minded company from that industry. These include but are not limited to: Walmart, Exxon Mobil and Esso (whose rating came in at 0), RadioShack, Cracker Barrel, Humana, John Deere, Dun & Bradstreet, Nine West, Autozone just to name a few.
To download and view the entire guide visit http://www.hrc.org/buyersguide2009/
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