Alaska Airlines
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Summary:
Alaska Airlines terminated two employees who disagreed with the company's support for the Equality Act. Alaska Airlines discriminates against faith-based charities in its giving and is a national corporate sponsor of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Alaska Airlines does not have viewpoint protections for its employees. For these reasons, Alaska Airlines receives a "High Risk" rating.
Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.
Alaska Airlines fired two employees for questioning the company’s position on the passage of the Equality Act. These two employees are suing for religious discrimination (1). Alaska Airlines received a score of 100 on the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index, which, among other characteristics, means that it has pledged to vet vendors for support of LGBTQ policies (2).
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Alaska Airlines’ giving guidelines expressly prohibit religious organizations from receiving funds (1).
Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.
Alaska Airlines does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.
Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.
Alaska Airlines’ PAC gives in a bipartisan manner and does not donate to ideological organizations (1).
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March 21, 2023
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