Wal-Mart’s Perfect LGBT Equality Score Suspended After Employee Complaints
- Civil rights group points to transgender workers’ accusations
- Wal-Mart says it will work to reverse the group’s decision
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The Human Rights Campaign has taken the rare step of suspending Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s perfect score for LGBT corporate equality after two federal complaints alleged the world’s largest retailer hadn’t protected transgender employees from discrimination.
Wal-Mart received its first-ever perfect score last year after it agreed to add new policies favorable to transgender workers. The suspension of the rating was disclosed today as part of the advocacy group’s annual Corporate Equality Index report. The suspension is only the second in the 16-year history of the report.