Tag: Corporate Equality Index
A trans Starbucks employee was misgendered on the job. Starbucks says it isn’t harassment.
Lawyers for Starbucks are arguing that repeatedly and intentionally misgendering a transgender employee don’t constitute actionable harassment under the law.
Starbucks has a reputation for being LGBTQ-friendly. The coffee corporation has earned a perfect score of 100 on HRC’s Corporate Equality Index for years.
It even has a policy on transgender workers that says, “A refusal to respect a partner’s request to be identified by the pronouns of choice is considered disrespectful (e.g., intentionally referring to a partner by a pronoun...
Best Companies For LGBT Employees in 2016
Among other issues, the LGBT community has been also struggling with discrimination at the workplace. While activists and campaigns fight for the LGBT community’s equal rights in all areas, HRC gives as good as one gets. In 2002 they created the Corporate Equality Index. The Corporate Equality Index serves the LGBT community in finding the companies that meet all the criteria for workplace equality.
In 2016 they have ranked 1,024 businesses and according to a press release they have used...
