Hilton fired an employee for not working Sunday shifts due to religious purposes in 2016; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) later prosecuted the case successfully. Hilton Worldwide 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, Hilton increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company provides a benefits package for employees which covers transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Hilton 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. Hilton has signed open letters supporting the Equality Act and opposed Florida's Parental Rights in Education law. The company funds multiple LGBTQ organizations and applies additional scrutiny to religious charities in its charitable giving. Hilton opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. Hilton requires all its hotel and corporate Team Members globally complete Inclusive & Respectful Workplace curriculum. 88% of all team members globally have completed training in Diversity & Inclusion and Unconscious Bias. The company signed an amicus brief in opposition to the 2016 North Carolina bathroom bill HB2, which required people to use the bathroom of their biological sex. Hilton Worldwide’s CEO, Christopher J. Nassetta, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. The company donated to the National Urban League. Hilton is a copper sponsor of Out & Equal and a corporate partner of the NGLCC. For these reasons, Hilton receives a High Risk rating.