Monday, July 13, 2015

Best Companies To Work For

Business Insider has a list of best companies to work for if you are trans,
The most transgender-friendly companies in America
By Rachel Gillett & Skye Gould
July 10, 2015

America still has a long way to go when it comes to transgender inclusion in the workplace, but some companies are championing the way by instituting policies and practices that embrace diversity.

"There are literally hundreds of major businesses that have adopted gender identity protections, gender transition guidelines, and, increasingly, transgender-inclusive healthcare benefits," Deena Fidas, head of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation's Workplace Equality Program, and co-author of the Corporate Equality Index (CEI), tells Business Insider.
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Of the more than 300 companies that earned a top CEI score of 100% in 2015, 72 stood out as the best companies for promoting workplace equality for transgender employees.
The problem is that having a policy and following it are two different things as was saw a couple of months ago with Saks of Fifth Avenue. DiversityInc called out Saks on two-facedness…
Saks Fifth Avenue’s Hypocrisy: The most amazing part of this whole story is that Saks has a corporate employee handbook, which includes protection for gender identity. But in its lawsuit, Saks claims this doesn’t matter because “employee handbooks are not contracts as a matter of law.”

On its corporate website, Saks says: “Understanding and valuing diversity is core to our commitment, but we recognize that diversity isn’t just about different backgrounds. It’s about fresh and original ideas, experiences and perspectives—all of which have led us to the innovative, creative and unexpected solutions we might never have found otherwise.”
I also know some trans women who were harassed on the job while the company maintained a blind eye toward the discrimination going on in their company while ignoring their company policy.

Many people who have been discriminated against do not want to press discrimination complaints because those complaints are public record and they rightly fear it would prevent them from further employment opportunities.

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