Major Accolades Highlight Aflac s Commitment to Corporate Citizenship
Company Named to Bloomberg s Gender-Equality Index and Fortune s World s Most Admired Companies List, Makes Significant Gains on Human Rights Campaign 2021 Corporate Equality Index for LGBTQ Issues
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COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Aflac Incorporated, a leading provider of supplemental insurance products through its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Japan, today announced it has received two major recognitions while making significant strides related to gender equality and LGBTQ initiatives. The company was named a World s Most Admired Company by Fortune Magazine for the 20th year and appears on Bloomberg s Gender-Equality Index for the second consecutive year. Aflac also saw a 15-point increase in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation s 2021 Corporate Equality Index score, reflecting the company s ongoing commitment to being a strong corporate citizen
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MetLife Named a ‘Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality’
February 2, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 2, 2021
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that it has received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for the 18th year in a row, making it a “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.”
The CEI is a national benchmarking tool that evaluates companies on their corporate policies and practices relevant to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) employees.
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Ballard Spahr issued the following announcement on Jan. 28.
Ballard Spahr received a 100 percent rating in the 2021 edition of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation s Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality.
This is the fourth year in a row Ballard Spahr has received a perfect rating, which recognizes the firm s benefits and protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer employees and their families. By satisfying all of the CEI s criteria, Ballard Spahr earned the designation of a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.
This year’s Corporate Equality Index, an annual benchmarking study of LGBTQ workplace fairness, gives high marks to two Maine-based companies among over 1,000 that were graded nationwide. Other prominent businesses in the state also performed well.
Hannaford Supermarkets received a score of 100% on the index, released by the Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign and the HRC Foundation. L.L.Bean Inc. earned a rating nearly as high, 90%.
This is the 10th consecutive year Scarborough-based Hannaford has received the perfect score, while the rating for L.L.Bean nearly doubled from its showing last year. The Freeport retailer, with about 5,000 employees worldwide, scored 50% in 2020.
A Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality
NortonLifeLock scores 100 on Human Rights Campaign s Corporate Equality Index
Published 02-01-21
By Kim Allman, Head of Corporate Responsibility and Government Affairs
We are proud to announce that NortonLifeLock again scored 100 on Human Rights Campaign s Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality. This is the second year that NortonLifeLock has been listed on the CEI.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is America s largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities. HRC first launched the CEI in 2002, and since then it has helped inform the public on the policies, benefits, and practices of global employers in regard to LGBTQ+ inclusion and equality. The report has helped accelerate wide-scale adoption of inclusive LGBTQ-specific pr