Constellation Energy Receives Top Rating on Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index
September 17 2009 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG) today announced that it has
received a top rating on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's
annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for the second consecutive
year. The CEI, which rates 590 businesses on a scale of 0 to 100
percent, is focused on a company's treatment of gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.
“Constellation Energy knows that by embracing and integrating
diversity and inclusion into all aspects of our business, we make
this company more valuable for all of our stakeholders,” said
Charles A. Berardesco, senior vice president, general counsel and
chief compliance officer, Constellation Energy. “Earning a perfect
rating for the second consecutive year demonstrates our continuing
commitment to implementing policies and best practices that support
a diverse and inclusive corporate culture.”
Berardesco, the chair of Constellation Energy’s Diversity
Council, is also a member of the Business Council for the Human
Rights Campaign.
Constellation Energy routinely implements best practices to help
cultivate and promote a culture of diversity and inclusion
throughout the organization. One such best practice includes the
formation of the company's Diversity Council, which is made up of a
cross-functional team of leaders from throughout the enterprise and
is now in its second successful year. Other diversity initiatives
throughout the company include diversity training,
non-discrimination policies and employer-provided domestic partner
health insurance and benefits.
“The Corporate Equality Index 2010 shows that, even in the most
challenging economy, leading employers are forging ahead of federal
and state law to recruit and retain a diverse workforce —
regardless of employees’ sexual orientation and gender identity or
expression,” said Human Rights Campaign Foundation President Joe
Solmonese. “While Congress considers a federal law that prohibits
workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender
identity or expression, businesses can take immediate steps to
ensure all employees in their workforce are treated fairly today.
These 305 businesses, and all employers actively working to improve
their rating, set an example for all U.S. employers, including the
federal government.”
The 2010 edition of the CEI reports that 305 businesses achieved
a perfect score, a 20 percent increase over last year, when the
number was 260. The 305 top-rated businesses collectively employ
more than 9 million full-time employees. These workers are
protected from employment discrimination based on sexual
orientation and gender identity or expression because of their
employers’ policies on diversity and inclusion, training and
benefits.
About Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy (www.constellation.com) is a leading
supplier of energy products and services to wholesale and retail
electric and natural gas customers. It owns a diversified fleet of
generating units located throughout the United States, totaling
approximately 9,000 megawatts of generating capacity, and is among
the leaders pursuing the development of new nuclear plants in the
United States. The company delivers electricity and natural gas
through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), its regulated
utility in Central Maryland. A FORTUNE 500 company headquartered in
Baltimore, Constellation Energy had revenues of $19.8 billion in
2008.
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