Siemens Healthineers has once again received a full score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s 2023-24 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) in the U.S. The HRC’s CEI is a national benchmarking tool that focuses on corporate policies, practices and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees.
HRC’s CEI annually evaluates and rates participating companies on detailed and ever-evolving criteria falling under four crucial pillars:
- Non-discrimination policies across business entities;
- Equitable benefits for LGBTQ+ workers and their families;
- Supporting an inclusive culture; and,
- Corporate social responsibility.
Siemens Healthineers’ efforts in satisfying all the CEI’s criteria earned a score of 100 and the designation as recipient of the Equality 100 Award: Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion. The full CEI report is available online at www.hrc.org/cei.
“We’re proud of our achievements in creating a diverse and inclusive environment at Siemens Healthineers,” said David Pacitti, president and head of the Americas. “Equality is not a ‘one and done,’ so we keep striving to expand our vision, knowing there is still more work needed to reach full, lived equality in the workplace.”
In addition to its focus on LGBTQ+ equality, Siemens Healthineers devotes significant resources to support diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the company in the U.S. and internationally, as outlined in our recent Sustainability Report 2023:
“Our business practices and relationships are characterized by fundamental respect for human rights, an integral part of the Company’s Business Conduct Guidelines, from which we derive our code of conduct and ground rules for collaboration. We see it as our particular duty to set a special example of how to treat one another.”
