MetLife Receives Perfect Score on Corporate Equality Index
December 05 2016 - 10:30AM
Business Wire
Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality for
14th Consecutive Year
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced its recognition as a
“Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality,” receiving a perfect score
on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2017 Corporate Equality
Index (CEI) for the 14th consecutive year. The CEI is a national
benchmarking tool to evaluate companies on their corporate policies
and practices relevant to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
(LGBT) employees.
The 2017 CEI rate over 850 businesses on their LGBT-related
policies and programs, including non-discrimination workplace
protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive
health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement
with the LGBT community.
“MetLife has a long history as a champion for diversity in the
workplace, in all its forms,” said Jean Vernor, MetLife senior vice
president, U.S. Direct Business, and head of the Diversity &
Inclusion U.S. Task Force. “A diverse workforce that reflects our
customer base can help provide a business advantage and is
essential to the continued success of our business.”
MetLife is committed to creating an inclusive work environment
that supports the diverse backgrounds and skills of all its
employees. To promote inclusivity, MetLife has a number of diverse
business resource networks, including GLAM (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
and Transgender Associates and Allies at MetLife), which was
founded in 2004 to raise awareness of LGBT issues at MetLife,
provide a forum for LGBT employees, and promote MetLife to the LGBT
community. MetLife also offers employees and their domestic same-
or opposite-sex partners a range of health, dental and other
benefits.
For more information on MetLife’s diversity and inclusion
efforts for employees, please
visit https://www.metlife.com/about/corporate-profile/diversity-inclusion/index.html.
About MetLife
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), through its subsidiaries and
affiliates ("MetLife"), is one of the largest life insurance
companies in the world. Founded in 1868, MetLife is a global
provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset
management. Serving approximately 100 million customers, MetLife
has operations in nearly 50 countries and holds leading market
positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe
and the Middle East. For more information, visit
www.metlife.com.
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