Interested in equality? Buy from General Mills instead of Kellog’s, Visa instead of Discover, Orbitz instead of Expedia. And if you just aren’t sure whose employment policies support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights – well, now there’s an app for that. The Human Rights Campaign released the first-ever “Buying for Equality” iPhone application. [...]
Some of the nation’s top companies are leading the trend toward making the workplace a welcoming environment for all workers. Forty-one percent of Fortune 500 and 25 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have policies protecting transgender employees from discrimination. And this year, 305 businesses reached a 100 percent rating on the Corporate Equality Index 2010, [...]
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