Dow Recognized Among “Best Places to Work” for LGBT Employees for 11th Consecutive Year
November 18 2015 - 11:35AM
Business Wire
Recognizing its continued leadership of and commitment to
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in the
workplace, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) for the 11th
consecutive year has been honored by the Human Rights Campaign
(HRC) for achieving a 100 percent rating on its corporate equality
index (CEI) – a global benchmarking tool on corporate policies and
practices related to LGBT employees.
“An inclusive workplace, and for that matter a fully open and
inclusive society, is one that enables its citizens and families to
thrive, businesses to prosper and economies to grow,” said Howard
Ungerleider, Dow’s vice chairman and chief financial officer, and
executive sponsor for GLAD, Dow’s LGBT and ally employee resource
group. “This recognition by the HRC is a testament to Dow’s
unwavering leadership in realizing that ideal, and to our belief
that inclusion is the true catalyst for success.”
CEI is the first to rate global businesses on a worldwide
consistency of their non-discrimination and/or codes of conduct for
personnel. This year, more than 390 businesses worldwide earned a
100 percent ranking, the highest number since the inception of the
index in 2002. In 2005, Dow became the first in its industry to
receive a 100 percent score on the CEI.
For more than a decade, Dow has offered best-in-class practices
of LGBT inclusion in the workplace including equal benefits to
same-sex partners for everything from health, dental and life
insurance to bereavement leave, relocation and dual career
assistance. Dow also recognizes survivor benefits for its pension
plan for LGBT and provides full transgender health benefits. The
company takes a leading public policy and advocacy position,
speaking on Capitol Hill in support of LGBT policies and leading
state and federal lobbying activities to bring fairness and equal
treatment to all LGBT citizens.
Last month, Dow joined with major global companies including
Google Inc., AT&T and The Coca-Cola Company, and others in an
HRC-led business coalition to push for rights and protections in
the workplace globally, including in countries where LGBT
individuals face legal discrimination or harassment.
The company was also recently ranked by Amsterdam-based
Workplace Pride Foundation as one of the world’s Top-5 most
LGBT-inclusive employers.
“The progress achieved has not come without hurdles and setbacks
however, and our work as a nation and a society is far from done,”
added Ungerleider. “Through courage and fortitude, we must continue
to relentlessly pursue a workplace and a society that welcomes and
respects everyone equally, and unequivocally.”
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to
passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The
Company is driving innovations that extract value from the
intersection of chemical, physical and biological sciences to help
address many of the world’s most challenging problems such as the
need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and
increasing agricultural productivity. Dow’s integrated, market
driven, industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced
materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad
range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in
approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as
packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2014,
Dow had annual sales of more than $58 billion and employed
approximately 53,000 people worldwide. The Company’s more than
6,000 product families are manufactured at 201 sites in 35
countries across the globe. References to “Dow” or the “Company”
mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries
unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be
found at www.dow.com.
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