BLogs.VillageVoice.com – Posted by Julie Bolcer
Long aggressive in the use of shareholder resolutions to pressure corporations to assume socially responsible stances, the New York City Pension Funds took an unprecedented step toward workplace equality for lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender employees on Tuesday. Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. and the five Pension Funds announced their proposals for 24 of America’s largest companies to adopt policies that bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. That number is nearly double the amount of resolutions filed on the issue in the previous proxy season.