The following article by Susan Milligan was posted on the U.S. News website October 13, 2017:
Corporate America has discovered that having LGBT-friendly policies helps the bottom line.
PHILADELPHIA — In 1991, Tennessee-based Cracker Barrel made no bones about why it fired gay and lesbian workers, saying in a company memo that the firm’s “traditional American values” could not co-exist with those “whose sexual preference fails to demonstrate normal heterosexual values which have been the foundation of families in our society.”
This year, the restaurant and gift shop is a corporate partner at the Out & Equal Summit, an annual meeting of companies and organizations seeking to promote workplace equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. And putting its money where American consumers’ mouths are, the company handed out coupons offering a 35 percent discount on all online purchases into December, but only if buyers enter “EQUAL35” in the promo code line. Continue reading “Businesses Lead the Way”