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ExxonMobil adds sexual orientation and gender identity of employees to protected classes

The company was previously ranked very low on the Human Rights Campaign's LGBT inclusion list.

By Thor Benson

IRVING, Texas, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- ExxonMobil, the world's fifth largest company by revenue, now has sexual orientation and gender identity on its list of protected classes.

The company's "Standards of Business Conduct," which includes race, sex, religion and age as classes that can't be discriminated against, now includes the LGBT community.

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"ExxonMobil's policies prohibit all forms of discrimination in any company workplace, anywhere in the world," a spokesperson told ThinkProgress. "ExxonMobil supports a work environment that values diversity and inclusion, and has numerous inclusive programs and policies that help make ExxonMobil a great place to work."

"ExxonMobil has long resisted instituting non-discrimination protections for LGBT employees, digging in their heels even as a vast majority of Fortune 500 companies treat these protections as a business necessity," reads a Human Rights Campaign report. Now, it would appear the company has changed its tune.

The Human Rights Campaign claims the company voted 17 times to maintain a policy that did not include the LGBT community.

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