Rockwell Automation Earns Top Marks in 2017 Corporate Equality Index
December 05 2016 - 4:57PM
Business Wire
Rockwell Automation Earns 100 Percent on Human Rights Campaign
Foundation’s Fourteenth Annual Scorecard on LGBTQ Workplace
Equality
Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to
industrial automation and information, proudly announced that it
received a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2017 Corporate
Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on
corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace
equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
Rockwell Automation joins the ranks of 517 major U.S. businesses
which also earned top marks this year.
“We are proud of our 100 percent HRC score for a fifth year in a
row, demonstrating our leadership and commitment to our employees
and community,” said Blake Moret, president and CEO, Rockwell
Automation. “Our mission to improve the quality of life by making
the world more productive and sustainable starts within our own
company, and we are committed to fostering a safe and equitable
environment for all of our employees to do their best work.”
The 2017 CEI rated 1,043 businesses in the report, which
evaluates LGBTQ–related policies and practices including
non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner
benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency
programs, and public engagement with the LGBTQ community. Rockwell
Automation’s efforts in satisfying all of the CEI’s criteria
results in a 100 percent ranking and the designation as a Best
Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.
For more information on the 2017 Corporate Equality Index, or to
download a free copy of the report, visit www.hrc.org/cei.
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of
America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve
equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.
HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are embraced as full
members of society at home, at work and in every community.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest
company dedicated to industrial automation and information, makes
its customers more productive and the world more sustainable.
Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., Rockwell Automation employs
approximately 22,000 people serving customers in more than 80
countries.
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