BizJournals.com – by Chris Rauber
Nearly 200 U.S. companies scored perfect “100s” on a national human rights group’s sixth annual Corporate Equality Index, including San Francisco Bay Area giants such as Yahoo Inc., Google Inc., Clorox Corp., Kaiser Permanente, Wells Fargo & Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Chevron Corp.
The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign Foundation announced its 2008 index on Monday, highlighting major U.S. companies on how they treat gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees. According to the foundation, “an unprecedented” 195 corporations scored a perfect “100” on this year’s index, not surprisingly including a number of San Francisco Bay Area employers. All told, 29 greater Bay Area employers made the list of those with perfect scores on the 0 to 100 scale. They included…