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6 Wisconsin Employers Make List Of Most LGBT-Friendly Places To Work

SC Johnson, Rockwell Automation Are Among Companies Listed By Human Rights Campaign

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Rockwell Automation headquarters in Milwaukee. Photo: Jonny Fixed Gear (CC-BY-NC-SA).

The Human Rights Campaign has given six large Wisconsin employers a 100 percent grade for how they treat lesbian and gay employees.

The Wisconsin workplaces that got the highest possible rating from the HRC’s annual Corporate Equality Index were:

  • Foley and Lardner LLP
  • Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
  • Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc.
  • Quarles & Brady LLP
  • S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
  • Rockwell Automation, Inc.

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The gay rights group said that other state companies are extending benefits to same-sex couples as well.

Deena Fidas, director of the HRC’s Workplace Equality Program, said the index is based on a company’s willingness to go beyond federal mandates and extend benefits to gay workers or to allow transgender coverage in health plans.

“This is something that SC Johnson has invested in, or this is something that Rockwell has invested in,” she said. “Those may or may not be companies that conventional wisdom would say, ‘Hey, they’re really involved in LGBT equality.’”

Fidas said the index is not meant to “shame” employers, but to point out progress toward gay rights.