This year’s Corporate Equality Index, an annual benchmarking study of LGBTQ workplace fairness, gives high marks to two Maine-based companies among over 1,000 that were graded nationwide. Other prominent businesses in the state also performed well.
Hannaford Supermarkets received a score of 100% on the index, released by the Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign and the HRC Foundation. L.L.Bean Inc. earned a rating nearly as high, 90%.
This is the 10th consecutive year Scarborough-based Hannaford has received the perfect score, while the rating for L.L.Bean nearly doubled from its showing last year. The Freeport retailer, with about 5,000 employees worldwide, scored 50% in 2020.