Walmart Inc. placed sixth on Diversy Inc.'s recently released 2021 list of large U.S. pani that support gay and transgenr employe and suppliers.
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- WALMART JT HELPED THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT A MAJOR WAY AND HERE’S WHY ’S IMPORTANT
- WAL-MART SUPPORT OF GAY RIGHTS TURNS ON BS
- WALMART TAK A STAND ON GUNS, GAY RIGHTS TO GET PEOPLE TO LIKE IT MORE
WALMART JT HELPED THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT A MAJOR WAY AND HERE’S WHY ’S IMPORTANT
While not necsarily known for their stnch LGBTQ+ advocy, Walmart has helped the gay rights movement progrs towards a huge victory. The… * walmart and gay rights *
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WAL-MART SUPPORT OF GAY RIGHTS TURNS ON BS
The chief executive of Wal-Mart Stor Inc has emerged as an unlikely voice for gay rights after the Arkansas ernor heed his ll on Wednday to reject a much-cricized bill. * walmart and gay rights *
On June 12, the same day 49 people were gunned down si Pulse nightclub Orlando, a Walmart associate om Marietta, Geia, tweeted: "Y'all see a gay club shootg as a horrible tragedy.
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While not necsarily known for their stnch LGBTQ+ advocy, Walmart has helped the gay rights movement progrs towards a huge pany, which is the largt private employer of the untry, recently announced s plans to add surance verage for s transgenr workers and same sex upl. Given that 28 stat is still legal for someone to loose their jobs for beg gay, Walmart has joed the lik of Apple and Xerox to help protect employee rights.
WALMART TAK A STAND ON GUNS, GAY RIGHTS TO GET PEOPLE TO LIKE IT MORE
”walmartIn a historic battle, Cote claimed that anti-gay workplace discrimatn was actually a vlatn of Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and that was, therefore, an illegal practice. ”Walmart has also e out support of transgenr workers, pany also add surance verage for transgenr employe to their policy, meang that they now sre a perfect 100 on Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equaly pany has prevly spoken up support of transgenr and gay rights.
“Corporate Ameri has risen to the top terms of beg a high-impact fluencer on LGBT rights, ” Deena Fidas, director of the workplace equaly project at the Human Rights Campaign, the largt advocy group for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights, told Bloomberg. [H/T Slate]The post Walmart jt helped the gay rights movement a MAJOR way and here’s why ’s important appeared first on HelloGiggl. Both pani e nearly intil language of enurage the e of diverse suppliers that are at least 51% owned by “woman, mory, veteran, disabled veteran, person wh a disabily or member of the lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) muny.