First Data Earns Top Score in Human Rights Campaign’s 2016 Corporate Equality Index
November 20 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
First Data recognized as a Best Place to Work
for LGBT and earns 100 percent on Human Rights Campaign
Foundation’s Fourteenth Annual Scorecard on Workplace Equality
First Data (NYSE: FDC), a global leader in
commerce-enabling technology and solutions, announced today
that it received a perfect score of 100 percent on the Corporate
Equality Index (CEI) for the second straight year. The CEI is a
national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and
practices related to LGBT workplace equality that is administered
by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
“We are proud that First Data has again been designated as a
best place to work for LGBT equality by achieving a perfect score
on the 2016 CEI,” said Cindy Armine-Klein, Chief Control Officer at
First Data. “Each and every day First Data works to foster an
environment that encourages our employees to bring their whole
selves’ to work, and this designation by the HRC validates those
efforts. At First Data we know that building a richly diverse and
inclusive workforce is not only the right thing to do, it’s good
for business.”
“In this 2016 Corporate Equality Index, hundreds of major
businesses responded to our new standards for workplace equality
with exceptional leadership. First Data not only meets these
standards, it goes above and beyond the call of duty, making
commitment to equality a fundamental aspect of its corporate
values," said HRC Foundation Workplace Equality Program Director
Deena Fidas.
First Data continues to be a leader in advocating for LGBT
equality. Earlier this year, First Data joined leading American
companies in signing HRC’s amicus brief with the United States
Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage. Even before same-sex
marriage was recognized everywhere in the United States, First Data
changed its policies to ensure that its LGBT employees who were not
legally allowed to be married were given the same benefits as all
other married employees.
First Data also began holding Transgender 101 training sessions
across its global human resources organization. During these
sessions First Data introduced new corporate policies that will
support employees transitioning in the workplace. Additionally,
these sessions will help First Data affect policies, processes and
a work environment where transgender employees feel welcomed in the
workplace. First Data has also amended its medical plan to allow
for gender transition coverage.
First Data’s commitment to diversity spans across all aspects of
its business. UNITY, First Data’s LGBT employee resource group, is
just one of six employee resource groups available to its
employees. First Data values its diverse workforce, and through the
collaboration of its employee resource groups not only will First
Data grow its business, but it will continue to serve the
communities in which it operates.
For more information on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index, or to
download a free copy of the report, visit www.hrc.org/cei.
About First Data
First Data is a global leader in commerce-enabling technology
and solutions, serving approximately six million business locations
and 4,000 financial institutions in 118 countries around the world.
The company’s 23,000 owner-associates are dedicated to helping
companies, from start-ups to the world’s largest corporations,
conduct commerce every day by securing and processing more than
2,300 transactions per second and $1.9 trillion per year.
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