BREAKING: Human Rights Campaign Takes Action Against Saks Fifth Avenue Over LGBT Policies The nation’s largest LGBT rights group takes on the high-end department store over a conflict between the store’s policies and a legal position it is taking against transgender employment protections. - HRC is suspending Saks’ largely positive score from its Corporate Equality Index, a ranking of companies’ LGBT-related policies. “Saks’ arguments are hugely concerning to us,” said Deena Fidas, Director of HRC’s Workplace Equality Program. “In its court filings, Saks attempts to secure a motion to dismiss Ms. Jamal’s allegations by simultaneously calling into question the validity of its own non-discrimination policy and the larger, crucial protections afforded by Title VII.” Regarding its Corporate Equality Index, an effort to alert consumers to pro-LGBT or anti-LGBT policies of companies, Fidas added: “The policies our CEI advances are not window dressings for any company to prop up or disregard in the face of individual allegations of misconduct. Saks is publicly undercutting the applicability of its own policies reported in the CEI and we must suspend Saks’ CEI score until further notice.” Both HRC and I will continue to closely monitor the case and Saks response (if any). ~ Meghan Stabler
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:29:13 +0000
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