Aon Corporation said it has been informed it is one of 195 major U.S. businesses given a 100 percent positive rating by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index.
The Human Rights Campaign is an American civil rights organization that works to achieve equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees.
Consumers and investors produce the index that rates employers on a scale from 0 to 100 on their treatment of that interest group.
"At Aon we have worked hard to ensure that we build and constantly enhance a diverse and productive work environment, and we are thrilled to be recognized for this effort by the Human Rights Campaign," said Corbette Doyle, the Chicago-based insurance broker's chief diversity officer.
Ms. Doyle added, "We are proud to be a leader not only in the insurance and human consulting industries but in the global business community."
The index rated 519 businesses this year. Ratings are based on such factors as nondiscrimination policies, diversity training, and benefits for domestic partners and transgender employees.
The 195 businesses that met all of the criteria employ more than 8.3 million workers. The number of businesses scoring 100 percent was an increase over 138 last year.
Aon said that its goal for its global diversity initiative is to create a world-class magnet for talent that nurtures the unique background, skills and creativity of the company's 43,000 colleagues around the world.
Since 2006, the broker said it has launched two global metrics for measuring success on its diversity objectives–more women in senior management positions within the company and four regionalized diversity strategies–with the objective of embracing the client needs and talent imperatives of each community served by Aon, and to cascade those strategies from the executive level all the way down to the newest employee."
Other property-casualty companies that joined Aon on the list were CNA Insurance, Esurance Inc. and Nationwide.
Aon and Esurance were on the list for the first time, while CNA is on the list for the second year and Nationwide is in its fourth year. It was the first year Aon has received a 100 percent rating.
The complete report, including Aon's and other companies' rating, can be found on the Human Rights Campaign Web site at HYPERLINK "http://www.hrc.org/cei"www.hrc.org/cei.
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