You’ve seen them… the list ranking businesses and municipalities on how they treat LGBTQ employees. Well a company that got a 100% on the HRC CEI just created an ad that supports trans people.
Well why am I down on Equality Indexes?
Because management might be behind LGBTQ issues but what about the floor level supervisors? What about the other employees?
We see the same thing in homeless shelters we train them over and over again but trans people still face harassment from the staff and residents.
If you are going to have an Equality Indexes they just can’t have a form for the corporate lawyers to fill out, they need to talk to the employees. They need to make sure the policies are enforced.
Starbucks launches transgender charity campaign
The Christian Post
By Anugrah Kumar
February10, 2020
Starbucks has started a new advertising campaign, #whatsyourname, in the United Kingdom in partnership with Mermaids, a nonprofit group that supports young trans-identifying people and their families, the coffee chain has announced.
Starbucks' #whatsyourname campaign "celebrates" the company’s signature practice of taking a customer’s name, writing it on a cup and calling it out, by extending it to "transgender and gender diverse people," the American coffee chain says in a statement.
It’s to celebrate “the significance it can have for some transgender and gender diverse people as they use their new name in public.” It’s “a symbol of our warm welcome. It is part of the Starbucks Experience and creates a moment of connection between our baristas and customers," the company adds.
Well why am I down on Equality Indexes?
Because management might be behind LGBTQ issues but what about the floor level supervisors? What about the other employees?
Despite the heartwarming ad, transgender Starbucks employees say they face discriminationI know someone who worked for an international company based here in the U.S. that has a 100 rating but HR would not stop the harassment she got from her boss.
Company software deadnames them, co-workers out and misgender them, and the insurance doesn't cover transition-related surgeries.
LGBTQ Nation
By Daniel Villarreal
February 10, 2020
Despite the touching new Starbucks ad about a trans teen changing his name, trans employees of the international coffee chain said that they’ve encountered troubles with company software deadnaming them, co-workers outing and misgendering them, and the employee insurance not covering transition-related surgeries, even with the company’s trans-inclusive workplace policies.
Tucker Jace Webb — a transgender employee from Denton, Texas — said the company refused to update his name in their software unless he underwent a legal name change (something which can be costly and time-consuming).
He said a high-ranking employee also outed him as trans to co-workers even though he asked them in his interview to keep it private.
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Two other transgender employees — Elaine Cao and Jamison Schwartz — said that the company’s insurance refused to cover their bottom- and top-surgeries, respectively. Cao said a supervisor angrily chastised her after she reported him to corporate for deliberately misgendering her.
Although her supervisor later quit, such retaliation makes it hard for trans employees to feel safe at work after demanding the respect they’re guaranteed by workplace policies.
We see the same thing in homeless shelters we train them over and over again but trans people still face harassment from the staff and residents.
If you are going to have an Equality Indexes they just can’t have a form for the corporate lawyers to fill out, they need to talk to the employees. They need to make sure the policies are enforced.
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