Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) fired multiple employees who refused to get Covid-19 vaccinations due to religious reasons. BMS settled with those employees after a wrongful termination lawsuit. BMS scored a 100 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, BMS increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. BMS forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. BMS provides a benefits package for employees which covers travel/lodging costs for an abortion and transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. BMS Ireland provides all its employees with unconscious bias training. The company supports the Equality Act and is a signatory of the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism. BMS’s former CEO, Giovanni Caforio, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. The company is also a corporate partner of Out & Equal and the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. For these reasons, Bristol Myers Squibb receives a High Risk rating.