WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 19, 2006 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second straight
year, Raytheon Company has been honored by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
for achieving a 100 percent score on its annual Corporate Equality Index.
The HRC is the nation's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
(GLBT) rights organization, and it uses the Corporate Equality Index as a
tool to rate American businesses on how they are treating GLBT employees,
consumers and investors.
"After becoming the first aerospace and defense company to ever achieve
a 100 percent score in 2005, we realized that the significance of winning
this award a second time was not only about scoring well, but also about
receiving the recognition for making the long-term commitment to building a
diverse and inclusive environment," said Hayward Bell, chief diversity
officer at Raytheon Company. "With more than 80,000 employees worldwide,
Raytheon approaches diversity as an opportunity for success, since a
team-oriented workplace helps us to become a stronger company for our
employees and a stronger partner for our customers and shareholders."
As part of the criteria for the Corporate Equality Index, companies
were rated on a scale of zero to 100 percent on a variety of measures that
included among others: health insurance coverage to employees' same-sex
domestic partners or the provision of cash compensation to employees to
purchase health insurance for a domestic partner on their own; official
recognition and support of a GLBT employee resource group; and diversity
training that includes sexual orientation and/or gender identity and
expression in the workplace.
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2005 sales of $21.9 billion, is an
industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information
technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft.
With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 80,000 people
worldwide.
Contact:
David Albritton
703-332-9914
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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CONTACT:
David Albritton of Raytheon Company,
+1-703-332-9914
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