Apple CEO Tim Cook
Three big U.S. companies, Apple, Dow Chemical, and Levi Strauss, are getting behind a bill being introduced in Congress today that provides blanket LGBT protections across the country, in housing, employment, workplaces, schools, and public accommodations. Dow said in a statement to BuzzFeed News;
“Full inclusion of our LGBT colleagues and citizens is quite simply the right thing to do — for business and for society. Dow applauds the introduction of The Equality Act and continues to support a comprehensive federal framework that ensures fairness and opportunity for everyone.”
In Arkansas, lawmakers passed the Commerce Improvement Act this year that negates all local laws that protect LGBT people from discrimination. The Equality Act would effectively eliminate a hodgepodge of local nondiscrimination laws that exists across the U.S., by making nondiscrimination a uniform policy nationwide.
Levi’s said the Equality Act is
“both the right thing to do and simply good business.”
We have a long history of supporting LGBT equality, and the time has come in this country for full, federal equality for the LGBT community.”
Apple is run by openly gay CEO Tim Cook and is another of the three companies with a perfect score in HRC’s index of LGBT friendly companies.
“At Apple we believe in equal treatment for everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love. We fully support the expansion of legal protections as a matter of basic human dignity.”
The bill will be presented today with supporters at noon today at a press conference at the Capitol. (via BuzzFeed News)
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