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Proud to Have LGBT Allies

One thing we can learn from LGBT advocates throughout history is that the work of making progress for inclusion of all people continues every day.

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100 Percent Proud of Corporate Equality Index Score

This post was written by Carolyn Chin, Diversity & College project manager. Clorox has earned another 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s 2014 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and been named one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.”  HRC is the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices relevant to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. In 2005, Clorox participated in the CEI for the first time to benchmark our LGBT efforts. Our score was low, signaling that we needed to make some changes if we really wanted to have an all-inclusive work environment that everyone could be proud…

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Wear Purple and Stand Up to Bullies With GLAAD

  Today is GLAAD Spirit Day, and we joined thousands of individuals and organizations in wearing purple to help raise awareness and encourage everyone to stand up against bullying. Our facilities in Pleasanton, Oakland, Alpharetta, Kennesaw and Durham all showed their support with purple signs featuring The Clorox Company logo. We also encouraged employees, including our execs, to take photos with these signs and upload them to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets with the hashtags #SpiritDay and #TheCloroxCompany to show the company’s support for the LGBT community.

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An Inclusive Workplace: Unlocking Employee Potential to Drive Growth

This post was written by Tom Johnson, vice president of Finance, Global Business Services. When I joined Clorox in 1988, coming out as a gay man was the furthest thing from my mind. The company didn’t have domestic partner benefits, a GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) employee resource group or openly GLBT employees in leadership positions. I wanted to progress in my career, but I saw no one like me in the management or leadership ranks. I concluded that the safest option for my career was to stay in the closet. I stayed in the closet at Clorox for nearly five years before…

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Equal, Once More

This month, we learned that Clorox has earned another perfect 100 percent score on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equality Index. HRC is a national LGBT rights organization that, among other things, rates U.S. Fortune 1000 companies on their policies and practices with respect to their LGBT employees. As Chief of Staff for Clorox Pride, our employee resource group for LGBT employees and advocates, and senior corporate counsel at Clorox, I’m proud of this recognition, because it really shows how far we’ve come in the past six years on LGBT matters. When I joined Clorox in 2006, I was surprised by how little attention…
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