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Sedgwick Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Employees
September 2008
Sedgwick is pleased to announce it has earned a perfect score in the 2009 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), released on September 2 by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC). The CEI rates 583 businesses on their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors. The 259 top-rated businesses that earned a perfect score have diversity training, health care, and domestic partnership benefits that protect workers from employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
“Every member of Sedgwick, as well as our clients, benefit from the creative legal thinking that emerges from a diverse organization,” said Sedgwick Chair Michael Tanenbaum. “Sedgwick is dedicated to advancing LGBT and all aspects of diversity throughout the firm and celebrating the benefits of diversity with our clients and the communities in which we work and live.”
Sedgwick Diversity Committee Chair Craig Barnes attributes the firm’s perfect score on the CEI to policies that have been in place for some time at the firm. "We did not have to institute a single new policy to achieve a perfect score. However, credit goes to our LGBT Action Committee that took on the task of reporting our policies to the HRC," said Barnes.
Sedgwick already offered many of the benefits the HRC considers as part of the review process, including comprehensive medical and dental benefits to domestic partners, and a generous parental leave policy, regardless of the parent’s sexual orientation.
The LGBT Action Committee, along with the African American Lawyers Forum, and the Asian American Lawyers Forum, comprise Sedgwick’s diversity affinity groups. To learn more about these groups and the overall Diversity program, please contact Craig Barnes or click here.
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