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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Cathy Bussewitz

LGBTQ+ rights group reports progress at U.S. companies despite conservative backlash

LGBTQ Corporate Equality - (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A national rights group said Tuesday that more U.S. companies are providing strong benefits and protections to LGBTQ+ employees despite an ongoing effort by conservative activists to get high-profile brands to stop participating in the organization's annual workplace report card.

The education arm of the Human Rights Campaign released its latest Corporate Equality Index the day after McDonald's became the latest big company to say it would no longer provide information for the annual evaluation of policies affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.

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