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Exxon Mobil Corp: Fueling Hate Since 1999
Boycott Description
Shareholders at the world’s largest oil company continue to reject a proposal to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the company’s official equal employment opportunity policy.
“ExxonMobil continues to have the dubious distinction of being the only Fortune 50 company that refuses to add sexual orientation and gender identity to their non-discrimination policy and is stuck in the ever-shrinking minority of businesses that don’t offer domestic partner benefits” said Human Rights Campaign Foundation President Joe Solmonese.
“It is irresponsible for ExxonMobil to ignore overwhelming shareholder support and not to join the majority of companies that provide equal protections and benefits to all families.”
ExxonMobil is the only company in America to have had a written non discrimination clause that included gays and to have rescinded it.
LGBT workers had been included in employment policies at Mobil. In December 1999 when Mobil merged with Exxon and under Exxon’s direction the policy was abandoned. At the same time it closed Mobil’s domestic partner benefits program to any more employees.
A total of 423 – 85 percent – of Fortune 500 companies include sexual orientation in their non-discrimination policies and 176 – more than 35 percent – include gender identity including ExxonMobil competitors BP Corp. Chevron Corp. Dow Chemical DuPont and Shell Oil.
Boycott Demands
We demand that Exxon Mobil Corp adopt BOTH sexual orientation AND gender identity to the company's official equal employment opportunity policy by August 10 2010. Until then we will boycott the use of all Exxon Mobil products and continue to diseminate truthful information about the hateful and inhumane employment policies of this company.
