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Disability Equality Index reveals 2020 “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion” |  |
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Washington, D.C., July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Disability Equality Index (DEI), the nation’s most comprehensive annual benchmarking tool, facilitated by leading non-profits Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) have revealed this year’s 205 top-scoring companies. The DEI is a prominent benchmarking tool for the Fortune 1000 and America’s top 200 revenue grossing law firms (Am Law 200) to gauge their level of disability workplace inclusion against competitors. In its sixth official year, the DEI continues to see an increase in year-over-year participation, with the number of top-scoring companies more than quadrupling to 205 in 2020 as compared to 43 in 2015. “The Disability Equality Index top scoring companies represent those businesses that have invested in accessibility and inclusion across their enterprise. As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ADA, it is wonderful to see the progress made by these companies, and we hope to see continued progress and support for the DEI over the next 30 years,” said Maria Town, President and CEO of AAPD. Jill Houghton, President & CEO, Disability:IN said “The best way to attract, retain and grow talent with disabilities is to create an accessible, inclusive workplace. This year’s top scoring Disability Equality Index companies are demonstrating their commitment to many of the numerous leading disability inclusion practices featured in the DEI, recognizing that there’s still room for improvement. We are proud to have developed strong partnerships with corporate allies who are committed to advancing disability inclusion and equality across their businesses in the United States and around the world.” Making the world inclusive for all isn’t only the right thing to do, it’s also good for business. The Accenture report “Getting to Equal: The Disability Inclusion Advantage,” produced in partnership with Disability:IN and the AAPD, found that companies that offered inclusive working environments for employees with disabilities achieved an average of: 28% higher revenue, 30% higher economic profit margins, and 2x net income of industry peers. The potential for wide-scale impact grows, as in 2020, 247 companies participated in the DEI, accounting for a total U.S. workforce of 11 million people. This year, we saw significant growth in employee self-identifications rates. In 2020, 5.5% of current employees self-identify as having a disability compared to 3.7% in 2019 . In addition, the efforts of disability inclusion in business is now a much larger conversation. With multi-national corporations operating outside of the United States, the DEI methodology was updated to reflect the changing landscape. The Non-U.S. Operations category continues to be not weighted but is an opportunity to collect non-discrimination policy language, ERG activity, and overall best practices from U.S. based companies with additional operations outside of the United States. Some findings include:
Disability inclusion in business is a growing topic for investors in driving sustainable performance. A global investor coalition, representing more than $2.8 trillion in combined assets, have called on companies they invest in to become more disability inclusive, through a “Joint Investor Statement on Disability Inclusion.”¨The coalition is led by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and Oregon State Treasurer Tobias Read, and includes large institutional investors such as California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) and non-U.S. investors such as Australian-based Ethical Partners Fund Management. The 2020 DEI report highlights industry trends and the progress of advancing disability inclusion in business. A few include:
For the full 2020 DEI Report, list of top-scoring companies, and to register for the 2021 DEI, please visit DisabilityEqualityIndex.org.
100 Score Companies 3M Accenture Adobe Inc. Allstate Insurance Company Ameren Corporation American Airlines American Electric Power American Water Aramark AT&T BAE Systems, Inc. Bank of America Best Buy Biogen Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island Blue Shield of California BMO Harris Bank BNY Mellon Boehringer Ingelheim Booz Allen Hamilton Boston Scientific Corporation Bristol Myers Squibb Capital One Caterpillar Inc. Centene Corporation CenturyLink Chevron Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Choice Hotels International Cigna Cisco Systems Inc. Comcast NBCUniversal Compass Group USA Corning Incorporated CVS Health Dell Technologies Deloitte Delta Air Lines Dominion Energy Dow DuPont DXC Technology Edison International Eli Lilly and Company Equitable Ernst & Young LLP Facebook, Inc. Fidelity Investments Florida Blue Freddie Mac Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin General Motors GlaxoSmithKline plc Grant Thornton LLP Health Care Service Corporation Hewlett Packard Enterprise Highmark Health HP Inc. Humana Huntington Bank IFF Intel Corporation Johnson & Johnson JPMorgan Chase & Co. Kaiser Permanente KPMG LLP L'Oreal USA Land O'Lakes, Inc. Lincoln Financial Group Lockheed Martin Lowe's Companies, Inc. M&T Bank ManpowerGroup Marriott International, Inc. MassMutual Mastercard Mathematica Policy Research Mayo Clinic McKesson Medtronic plc Merck MetLife, Inc. Microsoft Motorola Solutions Northern Trust Northrop Grumman Corporation Northwestern Mutual Old National Bank Oracle Pacific Gas and Electric Company Pfizer Inc. PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. PPL Corporation Principal Financial Group Prudential Financial PwC Qualcomm Randstad US Raytheon Company Reed Smith Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. S&P Global Salesforce.com, inc. SAP America, Inc. Siemens USA Sodexo Sony Southern Company Southwest Airlines Spaulding Rehabilitation Network State Street Synchrony T-Mobile TD Bank The Boeing Company The Hartford The Travelers Companies, Inc. The Walt Disney Company Thermo Fisher Scientific Tracfone Wireless, Inc. Tufts Health Plan, Inc. U.S. Bank U.S. Cellular Ultimate Software United Airlines Holdings, Inc. United Services Automobile Association (USAA) UnitedHealth Group Unum UPS Verizon Visa, Inc. Voya Financial Walgreens Walmart Inc. ZVRS and Purple Communications, a Division of ZP Better Together, LLC
90 Score Companies Ally Financial Inc. Amazon American Multi-Cinema Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Anthem, Inc. Astellas Pharma, Inc. Barclays Baxter International Inc. Bayer Baylor Scott & White Health Becton Dickinson (BD) Cargill, Inc. Charles Schwab & Co. Cintas Corporation Citrix Colgate-Palmolive CSX Transportation, Inc. DTE Energy Dun & Bradstreet Epstein Becker Green Fannie Mae Fifth Third Bank Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Fiserv Fox Corporation Franklin Templeton General Dynamics Mission Systems Grainger Indeed Iron Mountain Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. Meijer Nielsen Pearson Quest Diagnostics Sanofi US Steptoe & Johnson, LLP The Coca-Cola Company The Kroger Company The MITRE Corporation The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Viasat, Inc. Whirlpool Corporation Xcel Energy
80 Score Companies Argonne National Laboratory Brown Brothers Harriman BT Americas Consumers Energy Cox Communications, Inc. Cummins Inc. CUNA Mutual Group Empower Retirement Ford Motor Company General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) Leidos Holdings Norfolk Southern Corporation Novant Health PepsiCo RRD Rush University Medical Center Target TEKsystems Uber Technologies United Technologies Corporation Unisys Corporation
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About the Disability Equality Index (DEI) The Disability Equality Index (DEI) is a joint initiative of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and Disability:IN. Developed by the DEI Advisory Committee, a diverse group of business leaders, policy experts, and disability advocates, the DEI is a national, transparent, annual benchmarking tool that offers businesses an opportunity to receive an objective score, on a scale of zero (0) to 100, on their disability inclusion policies and practices. The DEI is an aspirational, educational, recognition tool that is intended to help companies identify opportunities for continued improvement and help build a company’s reputation as an employer of choice. The Disability Equality Index (DEI) brings together AAPD, the nation’s largest disability rights organization, and Disability:IN, the leading national business-to-business network, to collectively advance the inclusion of people with disabilities. The organizations are complimentary and bring unique strengths that make the project relevant and credible to corporate America and the disability community. About the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) AAPD is a convener, connecter, and catalyst for change, increasing the political and economic power of people with disabilities. As one of the leading national cross-disability civil rights organizations, AAPD advocates for the full recognition of rights for the over 60 million Americans with disabilities. Learn more at: www.aapd.com. About Disability:IN Disability:IN is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. Partnering with more than 220 corporations, Disability:IN expands opportunities for people with disabilities across enterprises. The organization and 27 affiliates raise a collective voice of positive change for people with disabilities in business. Through its programs and services, Disability:IN empowers businesses to achieve disability inclusion and equality, with the goal of advancing inclusion to the point when the organization is no longer necessary. Learn more at: www.disabilityin.org. Elaine Kubik Disability:IN 646-494-2738 elaine@DisabilityIN.org |
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