United States
The Estée Lauder Companies Scores 100% on 2020 Corporate Equality Index
Company Feature, 28 Jan 2020
The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) is proud to announce that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has ranked ELC as a 'Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality', having achieved a perfect score of 100 per cent for HRC’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index for the fourth consecutive year. In the 18 years HRC has been conducting its surveys, this is the eleventh perfect score ELC has received.
The Corporate Equality Index is the most distinguished benchmarking report in the U.S. for LGBTQ-related corporate policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programmes and public engagement with the LGBTQ community.
“Celebrating the individuality of every employee and championing what makes each employee unique at this company is at the core of who we are,” said Marilu Marshall, Senior Vice President, Executive Management, Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer. “Achieving a 100 per cent score on the Corporate Equality Index reflects our commitment to promoting a culture of respect and equality in the workplace, and we are honoured to accomplish this for the fourth consecutive year.”
“We are incredibly proud that The Estée Lauder Companies has received the 100% score for the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index again in 2020,” said Doug Jensen, Vice President, CRM and Corporate Marketing Analytics. “Our company is dedicated to inclusion and diversity and we are pleased that the Company supports our LGBTQA employees in all areas assessed by HRC. The perfect score is a powerful signal to current and potential employees that the Company supports our community.”
This announcement follows similar recognition of ELC’s policies and practices by numerous organisations including Fortune’s 'World’s Most Admired Companies 2020' and Working Mother’s '2019 100 Best Companies'. For the third consecutive year, ELC was also named on Bloomberg’s 2020 Gender-Equality Index which measures what companies do to drive transparency and advance gender equality within their respective companies and communities.
The Estée Lauder Companies is a longtime pioneer of LGBTQ equality and has most recently announced its support of the UN Global LGBTI Standards of Conduct for Business, the UN Human Rights Office’s five standards of conduct to support the business community in confronting discrimination of lesbian, gay, bi, trans and intersex people.
For more information on the 2020 Corporate Equality Index, or to download a free copy of the report, visit hrc.org.
