PPG Gains High Marks for Corporate Equality

April 1, 2019
PPG announced last week that the company received a score of 90 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2019 Corporate Equality Index.

April 1, 2019—PPG announced last week that the company received a score of 90 percent on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI).

The index evaluates LGBTQ-related policies and practices, including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBTQ community. PPG’s policies and practices in these areas resulted in a 90 percent ranking on the CEI.

The CEI evaluated and assigned full credit to PPG for each of these categories:

  • Prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation for all operations
  • Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression for all operations
  • Parity between same and different-sex spousal benefits
  • Has employer-supported employee resource group or firm-wide diversity council
  • Positively engages the external LGBTQ community
  • Offers transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
  • Demonstrates numerous LGBTQ internal best practices across workforce
  • Engages in corporate social responsibility

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