Honeywell

Capital Goods

Risk Level:

Rating - Danger
High Risk

Summary:

Honeywell does not use its corporate dollars to support ideological causes and largely stays out of activism. However, it has supported the Equality Act, and a lawsuit filed in October 2021 alleges that Honeywell requires critical race theory-influenced training for all employees under threat of termination. Honeywell does not have viewpoint protections in place to prevent such discrimination. For these reasons, Honeywell receives a "High Risk" rating.

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Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

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.

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Honeywell received a score of 85 on the Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. Among other requirements, this means Honeywell has pledged to vet vendors based on LGBTQ policies (1). Recently, lawsuits were filed against the company by a former employee who claimed he was fired for refusing to take mandatory critical race theory training for employees (2)(3).

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Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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Honeywell’s charitable giving primarily revolves around STEM education and disaster relief. While Honeywell does not appear to donate to religious organizations, there are no public restrictions or language suggesting that donations to religious organizations are prohibited (1)(2).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Honeywell does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Honeywell signed onto an open letter in support of the Equality Act (1). Internal allegations of the use of critical race theory in employee training have recently surfaced (2)(3).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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There are no known cases of Honeywell donating to ideological causes or organizations hostile to freedom of expression (1).

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Honeywell does not use political contributions for ideological purposes (1)(2).

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December 31, 2022

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